Let's look at this past quarter...

A free slide deck explaining the DECA Program. We know we shared this in our last Resilience Quarterly, but wanted to re-share! This PowerPoint presentation is designed to help you introduce and explain the DECA Program to others (colleagues, parents/families, funders, etc.). We invite you to download this slide deck and to use it as you see fit!

Note: There are talking points/notes in the notes section of each slide.

We went back to school as a family.

When you hear the words, "back to school," it's difficult NOT to think of your basic school supplies. Understandable! But this five-part series provides parents and family members with five tips for how to go back to school as a FAMILY. Teachers/professionals: Share this with the families you support! Open Video Playlist

We talked about the importance of the teacher-parent partnership.

While we know you have many things on your to-do list, we hope that this four-episode series provides some inspiration and motivation around establishing and continually nurturing the Teacher-Parent Partnership. Open Video Playlist

And in case you need the reminder, we encourage you to check out not only the various limited series we offer on YouTube, but for the multiple other videos that we hope you'll find valuable as well.

We invited you to center resilience with us.

The past few years have not been easy – for any of us. There have been too many moments of great pain and suffering. Please know that we stand with you, united in the sadness, anger, frustration, grief, and even numbness. Your feelings are valid and we agree that there is much work to do.

We also share your overwhelm about where to begin, and we invite you to start by centering resilience with us, and to spread the word with those in your circles.

How? We offer you this statement and invitation, in the form of an infographic. Take this and use it as you see fit. We would love for this to be shared with as many people as possible!

Let's look at the now and the future...

We hear you. Tired of needing to be resilient? Frustrated by your leadership? Need help managing challenging behaviors? Struggling with your work-life balance? We know, we hear you, and we are here for you. This four-episode limited series offers you a safe space and an opportunity to pause, reflect, focus, and take action in order to work through your challenges. You’ll find no “quick fixes” in these videos, but we do hope you’ll find some solace, and that you’ll pick up a new strategy or maybe just a new perspective.

Considering a DCRC podcast. Our team has been considering putting together a podcast series for you! While we are only having preliminary discussions right now, we want to hear what YOU think. This podcast would be for you, to try and help meet your needs. So, your feedback is important! If you haven't done so already, whether you listen to podcasts or not, we want to know your thoughts. Please respond to the just two questions in this form, in order to help guide our team's continuing discussions. And don't worry! Your responses will be submitted anonymously.

Register for our upcoming virtual trainings and free webinars. Just a friendly reminder that, for the first time, our virtual trainings and free webinars are scheduled throughout the current school/program year! There are many virtual trainings open for registration, and we want to ensure you get to see what's coming up. As we all know, time flies! So take a look and review, and we hope to see your name on one or more of our registrant lists.

Schedule something custom with us. We'd love it if you would consider scheduling us to deliver one or more of the high-quality trainings we have to offer! You can view our training topic options by age group (infant/toddler, preschool, adults), or you can view by DCRC resource (the DECA Program, Your Journey Together, Building Your Bounce, FLIP IT, etc.).

Once you review these options, should you have an interest in professional development for your program, complete our Professional Development Request Form. Start the ball rolling and schedule us today! Curious to know what you're in for if you book us? Check out this video to see the content- and fun-filled time you and your team members can have. We hope to get to work with you soon!

Transform challenging behavior. FLIP IT is a strategy that offers a simple, kind, strengths-based, commonsense, and effective four-step process to address children’s day-to-day challenging behaviors. The four steps are embodied in the FLIP IT mnemonic which stands for F – Feelings, L – Limits, I – Inquiries, and P – Prompts. FLIP IT is nothing new, but transforms best practice into a strategy that is easy to remember, applicable in a variety of challenging situations and portable.

Learn to FLIP IT at your own pace by choosing the FLIP IT Online Course, 2nd Edition. The entire length of the course is approximately 2.5 hours including interaction, reflection, application of skills learned with FLIP IT and a final assessment. Most importantly, this course can be taken module by module and not all in one sitting. Empower yourself and your colleagues by purchasing this course today!

Reminder: Keep your email subscription profile updated. We always want to make sure the information we have for you is up to date, and make sure we are honoring your email subscription needs! All you need to do to make sure your information is updated is to scroll all the way to the bottom of this email and click on the "Update Profile" link. Then head through the updating process to check on your information and your subscriptions, and that's it!

If you no longer want to receive our emails, you are welcome to click on the "Unsubscribe" link. Please note that unsubscribing from our emails can impact our ability to email you concerning any training you may be taking part in (now or in the future). For some trainings, we utilize Constant Contact to send out important information related to the training. If you opt to unsubscribe, you will not receive those communications. Instead of unsubscribing, we recommend just updating your email preferences following the guidance shared above.

See you in January for our Winter Resilience Quarterly!