The kids are not okay. We are facing a mental health crisis like never before. The solution, I think, comes in better equipping those who spend the most time with them: mental health clinicians and administrators in our schools.

I created a trauma-integrated training program just for you educators, and it’s an eight-week, virtual course we’ve called Trauma-Integrated Education for Schools (TIES): Training for Mental Health Practitioners and Administrators.

Our objective is to remove silos within schools and community programs and create a common language amongst those who are seeking to assess, treat, and support kids and their families who we serve and educate.

This course was created for all the heroes who do this brave work of helping people at their most vulnerable — those who do frontline work (paid or volunteer) and those who hold them. We’ll talk about how this job can affect a whole family — and remind each of you why you matter to our communities, and mostly to each other.

This course is about trauma, when and why it can be a big deal (and what to do about it). We’ll talk all about relationship and connection and timing. And we’ll wrap up this epic course with a plan to help each of you be better than you’ve ever been, and what the “next steps” in shifting culture might look like. I added a final module just for those of you with kids, to watch with them. It’s short and packed with some of the things that first responder families face that are unique, just to you.