Every Child Deserves to Heal.
Every Educator Deserves the Tools to Help.
Empower yourself to transform trauma into resilience—for your students, your school, and yourself.
Teaching is harder than ever. Students come to school carrying unseen burdens—anxiety, trauma, and stress that show up as disengagement, outbursts, or quiet withdrawal. As an educator, you shoulder the weight of helping them feel safe, connected, and ready to learn. But who helps you? At Starr Commonwealth, we believe you deserve to feel just as supported and equipped as the students you serve.
Starr’s offerings meet you where you are. Whether you’re just beginning your journey or seeking to transform, we have a path forward.
When trauma-informed and resilience-focused adults work within trauma-informed and resilience-focused systems, the well-being and success of children will increase.
Your School Needs a Champion. Why Not You?
Every district needs leaders who understand the profound impact of trauma—and how to build resilience. By becoming a Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Focused Specialist, you’ll be equipped to:
- Train and inspire your colleagues
- Advocate for trauma-informed practices in your school or district
- Create safer, more connected learning environments for every child
Selected Programs and Resources for Educators
Courageous Choices
Social Emotional Learning Program
In today’s classrooms, helping students develop emotional awareness, self-regulation, and resilience is more important than ever. Courageous Choices, a trauma-informed and CASEL-aligned social-emotional learning (SEL) program, equips students with essential skills to manage emotions, improve behavior, and apply SEL strategies in real-world situations.
Designed for K-5 students and early childhood/pre-K learners, this comprehensive program includes engaging guidebooks, digital lessons, classroom posters, calming corner visuals, worksheets, and more—all crafted to seamlessly integrate into your curriculum.
One-Minute Interventions
sensory-based intervention activities
This workbook is filled with age-specific, sensory-based intervention activities that focus on the major themes of trauma and resilience for children and adolescents ages 3-17 years old. This workbook is an excellent complement to all SITCAP® model intervention programs. All activities take less than 20 minutes to complete and is comprised of not only Starr’s bestsellers, One-Minute Trauma Interventions for Children and Adolescents. and More One-Minute Trauma Interventions for Children and Adolescents, but includes dozens more activities focused on resilience.
The Resilient Matters Podcast
A podcast for Educators & Administors
A podcast dedicated to exploring the complexities of trauma and the pathways to resilience. Each episode offers expert insights, personal stories, and practical strategies to help listeners foster healing and growth.
