With funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Passport: Skills for Life was developed by a multidisciplinary team at CRISE following consultations with some 40 educational, health and community organizations. From 2011 to 2014, the programme was assessed with 2,131 Francophone and Anglophone children and 131 teachers in Québec and Ontario (including disadvantaged and indigenous schools).

The results showed that the programme increases children’s inventory of coping strategies, improves emotional competency improves skills associated with school success and has positive effects on classroom atmosphere.