Professional Development for Camp Staff
Explore our professional development options for your camp staff, which will empower them to feel confident and ready—while you focus on making this summer unforgettable. Tell us what skills your staff needs most, and we’ll tailor the training to truly resonate with your camp community. We can provide custom training for your staff, ranging in…
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2025 Program Information – download or print Explore these professional development options at special rates! Watch this short video to explore our work
Transforming School Cultures – Focus on Student Agency & Equitable Learning
Over the last 15 years, BELONG Partners has offered professional development that infuses social emotional learning with trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative practices. Instead of advocating ways that adults can “fix kids,” our workshops and trainings focus on supporting the adults to shift their own mindset, and to consider approaches that center the dignity, voice,…
Celebrate and Reflect on the End of the School Year
Closing the school year out with some rituals and appreciations helps us reflect on all the growth and memories you and your students have made this year. There is so much anticipatory energy present at the end of the school year. It’s important to look back at your classroom and school community so you can…
Implementation Coach Moves District Model Forward in Southern Oregon
The BELONG Partners District Model has been developed in collaboration with the Southern Oregon Education Service District (SOESD) and the Southern Oregon Regional Educator Network (SOREN). This comprehensive approach aims to to bring systems level trauma-responsive and social-emotional learning practices to local schools and districts. Our train-the-trainer model focuses on building capacity and sustainability at…
Regulation Skills for Educators & Students
Young people missed foundational developmental milestones during COVID-19 school closures, resulting in less developed regulation skills in children and more big behaviors for educators to respond to. The good news is that recent brain science research helps us understand the physiology of strong emotions and how to teach skills to move through them. In this video…
Regulation Skills for Parents & Caregivers
Self-regulation is the ability to recognize, manage, and modulate one’s emotions, emotional reactions, and behaviors. Brain science has revealed that regulation skills are learned best through co-regulation with another person you trust. As parents, we are our children’s primary teachers and can model emotional regulation through practicing co-regulation with our children. When parents maintain or…
Teaching the Vital Skill of Problem Solving
Problem solving is second nature to many educators. For students, it is a vital skill they needs to learn and practice continuously. Sometimes, it feels easier to simply tell kids what to do rather than engage them in the problem-solving process. However, every time we solve a problem for a young person without their input,…
Inviting youth voice and agency into the classroom
In our adult-led culture, it can feel counterintuitive to some adults to make space for youth voice – for young people to lead their educational experience. But if we look at what is happening around the world, we see young people leading in amazing ways. There are many examples of young people using their voices…
