$15,841.65
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44
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$15,000
Goal
UPDATE: Together, we raised over $10,000 on Giving Tuesday to fund mental health interventions in underserved elementary schools! Our goal is to expand to 20 teachers and over 400 students next school year, and your generosity will help make that happen. Please help us reach our new goal of $15,000 by the end of the year!
Last year, a coalition of the nation’s leading experts in pediatric health declared a national emergency in child mental health that continues today. Children living below the poverty line are more likely to experience mental health issues and are less likely to receive care. Our Resilience Builder Program-Universal™ is used by educators in underserved schools to teach children skills that research shows increase both resilience and academic engagement. Give the gift of resilience today:
$45 - Provides a program support session for one teacher. These regular check-ins give teachers a chance to discuss program implementation with a trained clinical psychologist to ensure the best possible experience for students.
$65 - Helps one child build resilience. You help a child learn to be a proactive leader, gain a sense of self-mastery, and strengthen their social connections; all of which enable them to bounce back from difficult experiences.
$175 - Provides one hour of teacher training. Once a teacher is fully trained in delivering our program, they are prepared to help their entire class build resilience. Their impact will continue to grow year after year.
Each concept taught in our program is introduced with a short video. See what our students learn about recognizing and changing negative self-talk:
From our students: The most helpful thing I learned was...
"How to control my anger and how to start up conversations."
"To not react without thinking of the consequences."
"To calm myself down."
"How to be assertive and how to solve a problem."
"Being proactive and being empathetic."
"How to have a proactive mindset and how to deal with stress and anger."
From our teachers:
Lessons were easy to follow and "addressed student needs not typically addressed in most curriculum."
Students "were actually excited and looking forward to it when I would say it's time for a resilience lesson."
From our supporters:
"I think what makes it unique is the focus on resilience starting with young kids to try to PREVENT mental health problems from developing. I think the focus on learning skills to build resilience as opposed to therapeutically treating kids who already have anxiety and depression is the right focus. The idea of engaging educators, teachers and people in schools to deliver these educational therapeutic services at a young age to prevent psychiatric disease from occurring as opposed to what is often done which is to wait until the problems arise and then treat the problem."
About the Resilience Builder Program-Universal™ (RBP-U):
The purpose of our program is to bring a proactive mental health curriculum to students with demonstrated financial need. The Resilience Builder Program-Universal™ is based on a group therapy program used successfully for decades in private practice and in schools (Resilience Builder Program®). The RBP-U intervention consists of 36, 15-minute mini-lessons to be implemented by teachers in their entire classroom to reach more students. The RBP-U teaches children important skills that research shows increase students’ resilience and academic engagement. These include social skills, leadership skills, coping strategies for handling anxiety, frustration, and anger, and how to be proactive problem-solvers. Lessons are engaging and interactive to best teach students these practical skills. We provide teachers with online access to the RBP-U lesson plans, videos that introduce key concepts, and other materials so that they can easily administer the intervention. These materials were developed by mental health experts in consultation with local teachers who completed surveys about which content and format would be most useful in their classrooms. Our trained mental health providers meet monthly with teachers to answer questions and support program implementation. Teachers also complete a series of questionnaires to provide feedback on the intervention. This supports the ongoing adaptation of the RBP-U to meet the needs of our school partners and the children they serve.
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