Partnership for Resilience

09/04/2026

🍂 Our Fall 2026 Bite Size PD Series is here!

We're excited to announce this fall's lineup of FREE virtual Bite Size Professional Development sessions!

This season's topics were intentionally selected based on what we're hearing from educators and school leaders across Illinois. Each 90-minute session is held virtually from 3:45–5:15 p.m. and is designed to provide practical, relationship-centered strategies you can begin using right away.

Whether you're looking to strengthen relationships, support educator well-being, respond to challenging behaviors, partner more effectively with families, or better understand trauma and learning, we hope you'll join us this fall.

🍂 Save the Dates!
💙 September 8 – Restorative Moments for Educators: Repairing Relationships and Reclaiming Joy

🌿 September 22 – Staff Wellness & Self-Care Foundations

🧸 October 20 – Little Learners, Big Feelings: Behavior Strategies for Pre-K–2 Classrooms
🧠 October 29 – Understanding Trauma and the Brain
🛠️ November 5 – Behavior Management & De-escalation "In the Moment"
🤝 November 17 – Partnering with Families: Building Trust and Connection
🤖 December 2 – Ethical AI Use in SPED Classrooms
✅ All sessions are FREE and participants can earn 1.5 PDHs or CEUs.

📖 View the full session descriptions and register here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FILvDgDbQmqlqv9hyNiEjkCiKbpnpf95/edit?usp=sharing

Whether you join us for one session or all seven, we'd love to learn alongside you this fall. If you know an educator, school leader, or colleague who would benefit, please share this post to help us spread the word!

09/01/2026

🍎 Educators, your wellbeing matters.

Join us for Staff Wellness & Self-Care Foundations, a FREE virtual Bite-Size PD session designed to help educators manage stress, prevent burnout, and strengthen personal wellbeing. Explore practical strategies that support both adult wellness and a positive school climate.

📅 September 22, 2026
⏰ 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
🎓 Earn 1.5 PDHs & CEUs
💻 Free & Virtual
👩‍🏫 Facilitated by Destiny Kelly, PhD

🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/wellnessbitesize26

08/27/2026

Looking for a meaningful way to grow your trauma-informed and restorative practices this fall? 🍂📖

Join our FREE virtual book study of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Restorative Educator by Joe Brummer and connect with educators committed to building classrooms where students feel seen, supported, and connected.

✅ Free to participate
✅ 8 PDHs & CEUs available
✅ Weekly online discussions
✅ Chance to win a free copy of the book if you register by September 14th

Register today: https://tinyurl.com/restorativebookstudy26

08/21/2026

Relationships are at the heart of everything we do in education. 💙

Teaching is incredibly rewarding, but it's also deeply relational work. When relationships with students, colleagues, or families become strained, it can impact not only our work but our own well-being.

Join us for our first Bite Size PD of the fall:
✨ Restorative Moments for Educators: Repairing Relationships and Reclaiming Joy ✨

Together, we'll explore practical restorative strategies that help educators:
🤝 Strengthen relationships
💬 Navigate conflict in healthy ways
🌱 Foster psychological safety
❤️ Reconnect with the joy and purpose that brought us into education

Whether you're a teacher, administrator, counselor, social worker, or support staff member, you'll leave with strategies you can begin using right away.

📅 Tuesday, September 8, 2026
🕞 3:45–5:15 PM
💻 Virtual
🎓 FREE • Earn 1.5 PDHs or CEUs

Register today using the link or QR code on the flyer. We hope you'll join us!
https://tinyurl.com/resmoments2

08/06/2026

Recently, Partnership for Resilience attended the Area 5 SEL Hub 2026 Summer Summit, where educators and community partners came together to explore Awareness & Agency in Mental Health.

One message came through loud and clear: healthy school communities begin with healthy adults.

Some of our biggest takeaways included:

💙 Prioritizing adult social-emotional well-being isn't optional—it's foundational.

🤝 Strong relationships are at the heart of successful schools and lasting change.

📝 Meaningful improvement starts with thoughtful action planning and understanding the root causes behind the challenges schools face.

These ideas align closely with our work at Partnership for Resilience. When we invest in adult wellness, strengthen relationships, and help schools move beyond quick fixes to address root causes, we create environments where students, educators, and families can all thrive.

We're grateful to the Area 5 SEL Hub and the presenters for creating space for meaningful learning and collaboration. We look forward to bringing these ideas into our work with schools across Southern Illinois.

07/27/2026

Strong families are built through strong partnerships. 💙

This week, Partnership for Resilience joined the SICCF-Southern IL. Coalition for Children & Families' Action Team for an annual planning meeting.

We're excited to share that Partnership for Resilience will be featured as the Agency Spotlight on October 7, where we'll have the opportunity to introduce our work and share how we support schools, families, and communities across Southern Illinois.

We're grateful to be part of this incredible network.

Special thanks to our partners at Birth to Five Illinois: Region 30 and Birth to Five Illinois: Region 21 for their continued collaboration!

07/23/2026

🎉 What a wonderful way to celebrate another successful year!

This month, our Southland Team gathered for an end-of-the-year cookout celebrating the incredible dedication of our Parent Mentor Program and Ladders of Opportunity participants.

Together, we recognized the relationships built, the lives impacted, and the commitment of those who continue to strengthen children, families, and communities. Thank you to everyone who made this celebration so special! We're grateful for all you do and look forward to another year of growing, learning, and building resilience together.

07/22/2026

💚 Mental health is essential for everyone, yet access to care is not always equal.

This July, we’re joining Mental Health America in honoring the memory of Bebe Moore Campbell, a mental health advocate who worked to shed light on the mental health needs of the Black community and other underrepresented communities. Learn more: mhanational.org/bebemoorecampbell

We encourage you to explore the information, learn more about these disparities, and help advance conversations that support equitable access to mental health resources for all.

Together, we can build stronger, healthier, and more resilient communities.

Mental illness doesn't discriminate. Access to care does.

This July, we're recognizing Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, also known as , by looking at the data behind the disparities BIPOC communities face, and what's actually driving the gap in care.

⭐️ Swipe through to learn more, and find mental health resources for BIPOC communities at prevention.org/mhtta

07/10/2026

At Partnership for Resilience, we know that strong relationships and supportive systems in the earliest years lay the foundation for lifelong learning and well-being.

Congratulations to the Illinois Department of Early Childhood as they begin this important work. We're excited for this new chapter and the opportunities it creates to better support children, families, educators,providers, and communities throughout Illinois.

07/08/2026

📚 There's still time to join us!

🔗 Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu6ioNfjqQQYVdZu7kDLQ5IUvhMrwS3TnuSAWaS3hOSlKVhA/viewform?usp=header

Partnership for Resilience is excited to offer a FREE summer book study featuring Unearthing Joy by Gholdy Muhammad.

Together, we'll explore how joy, identity, healing, and justice can shape our classrooms while learning alongside educators from across Illinois.

✨ Begins Monday, July 13
💻 Asynchronous through Google Classroom
🎓 Earn up to 8 PDHs or CEUs

Watch the video below to learn more, then register using the link above or scan the QR code at the end of the video.

We'd love to learn with you this summer!