Systems/Structures to support efforts

MTSS 4 Success

The “Trauma-Informed Care” page on the MTSS4Success website provides resources and guidance for implementing trauma-informed practices within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). It highlights strategies to create supportive environments for students affected by trauma, emphasizing the importance of understanding trauma’s impact on learning and behavior.

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Memorandum of Understanding between School and Community Mental Health Provider

Use this sample Google doc to develop your own MOU with community mental health providers. The purpose of an MOU is to establish roles and responsibilities of the Parties to develop and implement a comprehensive school mental health system (CSMHS) that utilizes the strengths and expertise of school and community-partnered professionals. CSMHS are defined as school-community partnerships that provide a multi-tiered system of mental health supports (MTSS) to support students, families and the school community. “Mental health services” include activities, services and supports that address social, emotional and behavioral well-being of students, including substance use.

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Learning from Building a Healing Centered District

What does it take to build a healing-centered school district? Healing is much more than any one program – it’s the environment, relationships, & orientation we bring to work every day. From reevaluating school district policies to developing trauma training for staff to providing healing supports to administrators, we’ve launched initiatives to become more healing-centered. Join Liz Dozier and Maurice Swinney for a discussion on the learnings from our journey – from successful signs of healing to the obstacles & challenges.

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Integrated MTSS Fidelity Rubric (IMFR)

The Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Fidelity Rubric (IMFR) is a tool created to assess an elementary school’s implementation of Integrated Multi-tiered Systems of Support (I-MTSS). I-MTSS is a model where academic and social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) supports are strategically combined to improve students’ academic (e.g., reading and/or math) and SEB outcomes.

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Integrated Trauma and Healing Framework

This framework describes trauma and healing in these ways: trauma is the harmful interruption of safety, agency, dignity and/or belonging, which are fundamental needs of all human beings. Trauma is embodied in 5 levels: individual, collective, systemic, intergenerational and/or historical; trauma is experienced in the body-brain, overwhelming our ability to cope with and integrate thoughts, sensations, and emotions connected to an experience; and pathways to healing occur anytime we do anything that restores and/or promotes safety, agency, dignity and belonging and moves bodies towards integration and wholeness.

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Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative

This organization provides trainings on childhood adversity and resilience, historical trauma, burnout, and trauma-informed care have reached 1,200 people from community-based organizations, hospitals, FQHCs, schools, foundations, and more. They also are the region’s hub for the ACE Interface Train-the-Trainer curriculum, a nationally recognized program developed by Dr. Rob Anda and Laura Porter. We have trained four cohorts of presenters and now have four master trainers and 85 presenters.

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