Family & Community Partnership

Stress & Trauma Treatment Center

The Stress & Trauma Treatment Center is a specialized facility that serves Southern Illinois and helps individuals heal from traumatic experiences and manage stress. They offer a range of evidence-based therapies, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). These therapies are designed to support children, adolescents, young adults, and their families in overcoming the effects of trauma and adversity.

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Student Well-Being Survey

Measure and Understand Student Well-Being With a Research-Backed Instrument: Sometimes referred to as “youth positive development” or as “indicators of thriving,” student well-being is a predictor of outcomes including educational achievement, mental health, economic prosperity, and relationship success. By asking students to reflect on their well-being through surveys, schools and districts can gather actionable data to better support students socially and emotionally. Measuring well-being can contribute to a “whole child” educational approach, signal to students and their families the importance of mental health, help focus limited counseling resources on at-risk students, and inform a community-wide response to the trauma of student suicide.

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Starting a Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at your school

LGBTQ+ student-led clubs and GSAs (Gender and Sexuality Alliances) create safe, inclusive schools and serve as powerful agents of change by providing spaces for organization, support, and community. The resources guide starting a GSA, fostering inclusivity for trans youth, and participating in events like the Day of Silence, Solidarity Week, and GLSEN’s Changing the Game.

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Safe Space Toolkit

Guide provides strategies to support LGBTQ students, educate about anti-LGBTQ bias, advocate for changes in your school. The kit guides making an assessment of school’s climate, policies and practices.

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Resources on Personal Pronouns

This website provides information about why pronouns matter in a straight forward way. Access the resources provided to use in student, staff, and family learning events, newsletter, or link to their page in your email signature and share this information and your support of LLBTQ+ communities.

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Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools Report

In 2020 Communities for Just Schools Fund worked with national network of partners (youth, parent, and teacher-led organizing groups) to press back on harmful narratives about safety — and to instead place conversations about safety into the more holistic, appropriate container of culturally-affirming social-emotional learning (SEL). Through the year-long Community of Practice, they collected survey data from partners about their work related to safety and SEL. The findings from this year-long exploration of culturally-affirming SEL are detailed in this report.

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Reimagine Justice Illinois

Organization within Illinois that provides advocacy, professional development, needs assessment, action planning and implementation to communties and organizations wanting to develop adult social and emotional leanring, restorative practices, clutire and climate work in schools, bullying prevention, and healing-centered work.

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Practical Guide to Advance Community School Strategies for Youth Voice and Leadership

IEL partners with communities, working with local entities to fill service needs and support them in the long-term on their transformational leadership journey. This guide serves to support Community School practitioners to better understand and create opportunities for youth leadership in their schools and communities.

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