Your Journey Together (YJT) is a strength-based, trauma-sensitive parenting curriculum designed to promote the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable children and their families. The YJT curriculum focuses on empowering parents to promote safe, trusting and healing environments – all  key elements of a trauma sensitive program

triving to be perfect will hold you back because it causes a lot of anxiety. When every task or test is a measure of one’s self worth, school can certainly feel very risky, full of potential land minds. While mild to moderate levels of anxiety can be motivating (think of how hard it would be to get motivated to study for a test if weren’t anxious at all), high levels of anxiety actually interfere with learning and get in the way. It can take SO much time too. Perfectionism can also take a huge toll on your mood

It employs scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help users learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of their anxiety. 

To begin with, there are eleven different “types” of anxiety and related disorders, and each anxiety disorder has a list of commonly occurring symptoms clustered into 4 areas: Physical responses Thoughts Emotions Behaviors

Calm breathing can help you think more clearly and figure out what to do in stressful situations, which can help your anxiety go down even more. It’s free and it only takes a few minutes. Try it – what do you have to lose?

Reflective Practice Sessions are a time to talk about the work you do to support children and adults. The sessions focus on experiences, thoughts, and feelings directly connected with the work you are doing with young children and the adults in their lives.

The Devereux Center for Resilient Children (DCRC) has built a national reputation for providing dynamic, motivational, high-quality professional development services to programs and communities across the nation and internationally. Comprised of an expert team of professionals, our trainers can provide professional development on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) Program for Infants, Toddlers and/or Preschoolers, or deliver sessions on our other resources and critical topics related to the social and emotional health and resilience of children and the adults who care for them.

a comprehensive assessment and planning process that involves families and professionals working as partners.

Strength-based approaches: Research confirms that promoting children’s social and emotional strengths reduces the development and escalation of behavioral concerns. DCRC resources identify and build upon children’s strengths first, rather than focusing on the deficit-based behaviors.

According to Werner & Smith (1992), common factors among resilient children include having a close bond with at least one person that provided stable care, mothers’ modeling of competence, and positive relationships with extended family members and caregivers when parental ties were not available. When the teacher or caregiver is unavailable to the young child as a result of chronic stress, these relationships can be disrupted and the consequences can be severe and long-lasting (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2002).