Coaching
What does SEL coaching look Like?
Through the REACH Program, our SEL Specialists partner with your school's team to address students' and staff social-emotional and mental health needs.
Your SEL Specialist will work alongside your team throughout the process, meeting you where you are both onsite and virtually.
The Reach Program
The Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing (REACH) Statewide Initiative trains educators, school mental health professionals, and community members to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma and address students' and staff social-emotional and mental health needs.
This REACH Program consists of a REACH School Team going through the REACH professional development content, completing the TRS-IA, and creating an Action Plan, alongside one of our SEL Coaches.
BENEFITS OF BECOMING A REACH SCHOOL INCLUDE
Virtual Learning Community
Your REACH School Team will have full access to the Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) REACH Learning and Resource Hub (RLRH). The RLRH features a series of on-demand recorded trainings and resources to prepare educators and community partners to better support student mental health and resilience via trauma-responsive and healing-centered practices, while fostering their own personal and professional resilience and self-care skills.
ISBE Licensure Clock Hours and Continuing Education Units:
Through our Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (CCR) partnership, Illinois educators who complete the virtual, on-demand trainings will have the opportunity to receive ISBE licensure clock hours. Also, licensed school social workers and psychologists who complete the recorded trainings can earn continuing education credits (CEUs).
Trauma-Responsive Schools-Implementation Assessment (TRS-IA)
Your school will learn about a national tool designed to support schools in assessing their current trauma-responsive practices. Your school will be supported in convening a REACH Team that will engage in a consensus building process to complete the TRS-IA; this instrument provides valuable information and guidance for creating a trauma responsive action plan.
REACH Community of Practice
Your school can choose to be part of a virtual Community of Practice (CoP) to share ideas, challenges, and successes and engage in meaningful collaboration around action plan implementation. CoP facilitators guide their CoP members to identify ways to make progress on goals included in their school’s REACH action plan and translate knowledge and insights gained through CoP participation to a school-based application.