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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).
The RISE Whole Program Results offer a comprehensive look at the impact of RISE programming across multiple school years. This data captures end-of-year feedback from participating schools, facilitators, and educators, highlighting trends in participation, engagement, and meaningful shifts in educator well-being, social-emotional competence, and use of trauma-informed practices.
Building-based RISE facilitators come from many different backgrounds, including teachers, administrators, school counselors, mental health advocates, coaches and more! We train one or two cohorts each year and then stay connected with our facilitators for years to come.
We have measured the impact of RISE on hundreds of educators across Colorado since 2017. While there are differences at each building, and from year-to-year, there are consistencies too:
RISE workshops, participants report higher levels of social emotional skills, including increased emotional awareness, increased emotion regulation, and increased self-compassion.
We see significant increases in educator use of RISE skills, such as self-awareness, connection skills, emotion support skills and emotion coaching skills.
Educators regularly report improvements in their experience of burnout, as well as increased levels of psychological resilience.
Measures of trauma-informed school practices increase from levels assessed before RISE implementation.
Educators consistently report that participating in RISE has expanded their network of social support at work.
RISE workshops, participants report higher levels of social emotional skills, including increased emotional awareness, increased emotion regulation, and increased self-compassion.
Each year’s report includes both quantitative measures and personal reflections that illustrate how RISE supports educators in building resilience, fostering connection, and enhancing their ability to respond to challenges with compassion and calm.
RISE trained educators used significantly more relationship skills in a typical live student scenario than educators in the comparison non-RISE group. RISE educators showed:
RISE educators also engaged in fewer traps during the interaction.
Example traps include:
The effect of RISE on educator traps was moderated by the # of years educators had been in the field. Among educators with more experience, RISE educators were observed showing less traps in interactions compared to non-RISE educators.
Coaching directly impacted educator skill development.
We collected data from 196 educators participating in the RISE program at 24 elementary, middle and high schools in Colorado from 2017-2020.
We collected data from 88 educators participating in RISE at 10 elementary, middle, and high schools.
We collected data from 55 educators participating in the RISE program at 6 elementary, middle and high schools.
We collected data from 53 educators participating in the RISE program at 8 elementary schools.
The Center for Resilience + Well-Being is a resource center within the Prevention Science Program at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS).