Professional Development HyFlex Resilience Training Courses

 In The RGP “What’s Your Game Plan” section, students will find many different life topics  they may encounter during their lifetime. In order to successfully incorporate these concepts into their life, they need to turn these strategies into automatic habits. 

Thus, students learn to train their brains to identify a situation and quickly process and move through any difficult life situation. 

Students will be introduced to each life topic in the following way:

1. Two pages of 4114U (411 [Information] 4 [for] U [You]) pages to teach them about each life subject
2. Four additional activity pages to help them learn and process each specific life topic:

• Understanding Brain Power
• Learning Cognitive Skills
• Learning Communication Skills
• Learning Mindfulness Skills
• Developing New Habits in the “Habit Tracker”
•  Reducing Anxiety using the “Anxiety-Buster To-Do List”

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recently issued an alert: 

1. Indicating screening for depression and suicide risk is essential for the 12- to 18-years-old age group and 
2. Identifying schools as the best channel to reach all students.  

Research has shown that if mental health issues are not resolved and left untreated in adolescents, then the trajectory of a child’s brain development is altered; hence, this is a crucial time to identify at-risk youth and implement intervention strategies and hope for reversal of psychiatric symptoms. Since educators spend numerous hours with their students and most mental health disorders are often triggered during the puberty years, schools are in the best position to help identify at-risk youth and implement prevention and intervention techniques for early detection—potentially reversing any psychiatric symptoms. Additionally, school-based programs continue to be the channel showing the most promise and significant results in reaching the majority of adolescents while also identifying mental health disorders. Schools have the ability to focus on identifying at-risk youth while also adding social validity. Social validity is deemed a crucial key to the puzzle because for a school-based program to succeed, the surrounding community needs to place a value on the program’s recommended goals, methods, and outcomes. By supporting the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation of the program, it has long-term sustainability.

 “I used The Resilience Game Plan every day with my students. When we completed this intervention curriculum, my students didn’t want to stop and were asking for more lessons. I experienced major breakthroughs with my students as The Resilience Game Plan provided a safe space for them to feel seen, heard, valued, respected, supported, and inspired to go to school. I would encourage all schools to use The Resilience Game Plan, as it is not a typical SEL program, as the program teaches four, crucial self-regulation life skills: Social, Emotional, Cognitive, and Biological. The Resilience Game Plan truly works to build a positive and caring school climate with empowered educators, supportive caregivers, and motivated students who are equipped with life skills to navigate any difficult life situation.”

Sharon Turner, M.A.Ed.,  Educator, Compton Unified School District, Compton, California

“Students are coming to our classrooms with more anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation than ever before. The rise in case is staggering and can cause life-altering or life-ending decision-making. The Resilience Game Plan (The RGP) should be an essential curricular resource in every school to help students change the trajectory of their mental health. By providing students an understanding of the brain, the importance of communication, and ways to develop new, valuable habits, The RGP supports students and the opportunity to navigate life successfully.” 

- Kristen R. Bilkey, Ed.S.., M.S.Ed., Superintendent, Northwestern School Corporation, Kokomo, Indiana 

“These are valuable information and exercises for not only adolescents, but just as importantly, for all adults who desire to become thriving individuals. Certainly, I recommend this curriculum for high school Life Studies/Advisory or even Diversity classes. These experiential activities allow us to see the diversity we all own as human beings, which may or may not depend on our ethnicity, race, or socio-economic status. I highly recommend that this curriculum be a part of all of our lives. We all need a game plan.”

- Dr. Randolph Ward, Ed.D., retired San Diego County Superintendent of Schools, Executive Director of Teaching for America

“The author of The Resilience Game Plan (The RGP) provides a compassionate workbook that tweens and teens will find helpful and fun to use. In an honest fashion, students are told life is not always easy, and they need a game plan to help them cope. The RGP 

is a well-thought-out playbook that provides adolescents common sense life skills they will use for the rest of their life.”

- Paula A. Yohe, B.S.Ed., M.A.Ed., M.L.I.S., Director of Technology and Information Systems, Dillon School District IV, South Carolina

 “The Resilience Game Plan (The RGP) is a key intervention tool administrators should implement in all 7th-12th grade homeroom 

or advisory classrooms. It includes ‘Key Takeways’ to ensure students learn the crucial concepts. Also, learning about the brain and cognitive, communication, and mindfulness skills is extremely beneficial. Educators and administrators will find they will benefit emotionally right along with their students. The RGP comes with a facilitator’s guide to help support educators in using this workbook and identify at-risk students to help end self-harm cases in our schools. The RGP is backed by over 300 evidenced-based research articles, providing the most pertinent advice to best support educators and students.”

- Andrea Clark, M.A.Ed.: Administration, San Dieguito Union High School District, California