Resilient-Supportive Schools Illinois (RSSI) Terms
The RSSI helps schools on their trauma-responsive journey by providing a framework of these pillars necessary to support this work.
A trauma-responsive school is one where all students feel safe and supported, and where the school’s educational mission focuses on addressing the impact of trauma on learning.
A school or district is healing-centered when it acknowledges its role and responsibility to the community, fully responds to trauma, and promotes resilience and healing through genuine, trusting, and creative relationships.
A school providing social emotional learning support is one focussing on every student’s emotional well-being in addition to academic and extracurricular pursuits.
A school providing mental health support provides services and interventions to strengthen every student’s mental health.
A school that includes students’, families’ and educators’ cultures in all aspects of schools, including supports and services that promote well-being and mental health and anti-racist policies and practices that promote equity.