Partnership for Resilience

The Partnership builds school community partnerships, and it provides training to school staff members in the south suburban area of Cook county, as well as in the southernmost areas of Illinois. All the Partnership's efforts are geared toward the children of impoverished households, as well as those who have experienced adversity in succeeding in school and life. During this fiscal year, the Partnership continued to successfully execute its professional development offerings to via on-line delivery and continued its efforts to help early education providers in southern Illinois become trauma-responsive. Through a partnership with the children's research triangle, tele-counselling services continued to be provided in south suburban Cook county. In its third year of operation, the parent mentor program was able to transition to a remote format to provide partnering school districts the classroom support they requested from parent volunteers.