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The Center for Resilience + Well-Being is a resource center within the Prevention Science Program at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS).
RISE Implemenetation
RISE is a comprehensive program implemented over the course of three years, to increase sustainability and achieve whole-school saturation.
- Want to give educators the support, skills, and strategies they need so that every student has at least one safe supportive adult at school?
- Want to increase belonging for everyone in your building?
- Want to provide a program that provides educators with skills to foster their own well-being while increasing student resilience?
RISE Comprehensive Program Components
RISE implementation includes the following components:
Whole-School Professional Development
To establish common language, norms, and knowledge, RISE includes three whole-school professional development sessions. The sessions are Designing Trauma Responsive Intentional Environments, Understanding Trauma & Resilience, and Cultivating Well-being. Sessions are 3 hours long and are typically delivered by CRW staff.
Workshops
Trained building-based facilitators deliver a series of nine RISE workshops to small groups of 8-15 educators each year. Workshop content includes well-being practices, connection skills, emotion support skills and emotion coaching skills. Each workshop is approximately 75 minutes long and includes didactic instruction, hands-on activities, time to reflect and share, and opportunities for skill application. The workshop series is the core of the RISE program.
Individual Coaching
While the workshop series is the core of the RISE program, we often say that coaching is where the magic happens! In between workshop deliveries, trained RISE facilitators meet individually with workshop participants to discuss their goals, help them apply RISE skills to their specific role and context, and problem solve challenging situations.
Impact Assessment
We know how important it is that every initiative in schools is data-driven and evidence-based. Therefore, RISE includes a component of impact assessment. Using pre/post surveys, we assess how educators’ skills, mindsets, attitudes, and well-being shift over the course of the workshop series. We share those findings with you in easy-to-understand ways, so that the data is immediately useful. Our RISE schools often share this data with parents, school or district leadership, and funders.
To learn about how the Center of Resilience + Well-Being can work your your district or school, please connect with us!
Our Train the Facilitator Approach
We use a “train the facilitator” model for the majority of RISE implementation, which means that essential RISE knowledge and skills stay in your building and district for years to come.
Districts and schools identify who they would like to have trained to deliver the RISE workshop series and individual coaching from their own faculty! RISE facilitators can be teachers, counselors, administrators, mental health advocates and more!
Facilitators are trained using a mix of asynchronous coursework; two days of live, highly experiential training; and ongoing support throughout the year(s). These trained facilitators then deliver our workshop series and provide individual coaching to small cohort(s) of educators each year.
3 Whole-School Professional Development Sessions
(Y1, Y2)
Training & Support for a Building Based Facilitator
(Y1, Y2, Y3)
Impact Assessment
(Y1, Y2, Y3)
Facilitator delivers nine 75- minute RISE Workshops
Facilitator coaches workshop participants
Other RISE Offerings
In addition to our standard comprehensive RISE implementation, as described above, we have a variety of other rich offerings for schools interested in increasing educator social emotional competency, interaction skills, supportive environments, and cultivating well-being. Other offerings, which can be delivered stand-alone or in conjunction with RISE.
Not seeing what you are looking for? Reach out to us about customized PD opportunities!
RISE Bits Series
- Looking for a way to step into RISE without doing the whole program?
- Do you want to quickly integrate RISE concepts such as wellbeing, trauma-informed teaching, and emotion-focused skills?
RISE Bits content series includes: The Stress Cycle, Identity Exploration, Self-Compassion, Navigating Challenging Behavior, and more!
These sessions can be delivered at your own pace, and in whichever order best suits your school’s needs.
Format: Series of a dozen or more
Length: 15-20 minutes
Facilitation: Led by a facilitator in your building, designed to be delivered at faculty meetings or other gatherings
Skills for Supporting Students During Difficult Times Online Course
- Want to better equip your educators to support students when scary or stressful events occur?
- We hear from educators again and again that they want skills they can use in their classroom to be immediately supportive to their students when scary things happen. That is why we developed this course
All schools experience times which feel stressful, scary or uncertain. This asynchronous, self-paced online course is designed to help educators develop knowledge and concrete, evidence-based practices to help all learners deal with stress or change. This course is immediately useful, whether it is before or after the scary event.
Topics include: The Stress Response System, Rhythm, Routines, Connection Skills and more.
Format: 6 online modules
Length: 20-30 minutes
Facilitation: Self-led; completed in any order
RISE Workshop Series for Administrators
Are your administrators ready to level up their leadership with:
- Increased social emotional competencies?
- Enhanced well-being strategies?
- A deeper understanding of the human response to stress and how it impacts you and others in your district?
- Practical skills for connecting to others?
- How to integrate these concepts into your leadership practices?
This workshop series includes the RISE content for educators and content targeting the specific concerns and challenges of leadership within schools or districts.
Format: 8-workshop series, small group (8-15) of either building level administrators, district leaders, or a combination of both
Length: 60-90 minutes
Facilitation: CRW faculty
Supporting Educators Series
- Have you been looking for a way to provide RISE-like support for your educators in a flexible, responsive way?
- Do your teachers feel alone in managing the challenges of teaching?
- Do staff at your site need strategies for well-being?
- Looking for an ongoing approach to educator support?
These sessions are esigned to provide opportunities for educators to learn, receive support, and build connections. Each session includes a component of psychoeducation and research, a well-being practice, and an opportunity to learn and apply a new skill.
Format: Series of 6 or more drop-in sessions
Length: 45-60 minutes
Facilitation: CRW faculty member, or a building based facilitator may be trained for Supporting Educators delivery
Parent Education: Supporting Caregivers Series
- Have you been looking for a way to offer RISE-like support to parents in your community?
- Do parents at your school feel isolated in managing the challenges of caregiving?
- Want to bring parents in and support them as part of your community?
These sessions for parents and caregivers help build relationships, develop skills, and learn well-being practices. Each session includes an educational component, a well-being practice, and a skills focus. Initially developed in response to a natural disaster, this series is helpful for parents anytime!
Format: Series of five drop-in sessions
Length: 45-60 minutes
Facilitation: CRW faculty member, or a building based facilitator may be trained for Supporting Caregivers delivery.
Professional Development Sessions
- Do you feel like your staff could benefit from a RISE PD, but can’t implement the full program right now?
- Searching for a way to bring more evidence-based knowledge on trauma, resilience, well-being, stress, or mental health to your team?
We offer dynamic, engaging, research-based professional development options for your faculty. Members of the CRW faculty will come to your building to enrich educators’ understanding of well-being, trauma, mental health and more, using teaching strategies based in adult learning theory.
Professional Development Topics include:
- Creating Trauma Responsive Intentional Environments
- Understanding Trauma & Resilience*
- Cultivating Educator Well-Being*
- Building Resilience in Schools
- Establishing Safe Supportive School Spaces
- School Tools: Interrupting Microaggressions
- Engage Calm Distract
- Secondary Traumatic Stress/Burnout
- Healthy Teams & Psychological Safety
* Indicates PD session included as part of the comprehensive RISE Program
Format: Live, in person, or via zoom
Length: 1-3 hours
Facilitation: CRW faculty member
Listen-Protect-Connect Training
- Do you want to provide a simple, concrete, set of skills to all adults in your school, to support students in the face of a disaster or other community-wide event?
This pragmatic training is meant to give supportive adults simple, accessible, research-backed tools to support youth in the event of a disaster or very stressful event.
Format: Zoom
Length: 2 hours
Facilitation: Delivered by CRW faculty live or via Zoom.
Other Education-Focused Offerings
Customized Online Course Development
Reach out to us if you have a need for an online course for YOUR team! We love developing online asynchronous learning opportunities to fit the needs of educators in your district.
Expert Content Consultation
- Do you need to develop materials at school, district, or state level to support trauma-responsive teaching or educator well-being?
- CRW faculty include psychologists, social workers and educators who have decades of experience with child development, trauma-responsive practices, mental health, resilience building and more.
- If you have a project that needs an infusion of research based expertise in these areas, reach out to us for content consultation.
Facilitation & Project Management
If your project needs go beyond content, we also have experience in facilitating and managing complex projects within large, diverse teams. Tell us about your project!