Since 1994, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly the Cleo Eulau Center) has been building thriving school communities where students are equipped with lifelong resilience and teachers are empowered to be their best selves. Acknowledge Alliance was founded on the belief that when a child has a caring adult in their life who believes in them and their abilities, they can succeed despite adversities. By serving K-8 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, we cultivate these transformative relationships at all levels of learning through on-site support of teachers and administrators, resilience support groups, Project Resilience social emotional learning lessons, student counseling, and district-level professional development.

Acknowledge Alliance counselors support the social emotional wellbeing of entire school ecosystems - from teachers to students, principals, administrators, and family members across 20 schools and district offices. They strengthen school communities by facilitating social-emotional learning lessons that focus on building student and classroom resilience skills, and by being an encouraging on-campus presence for educators, guiding them as they navigate challenges in the classroom and beyond.

Evidence shows that the adult-student relationship is the most powerful variable for learning and success. Teachers are the most important influence in these young peoples’ lives, next to immediate family. It only takes one teacher or caring adult to change a student’s life for the better. Research has shown that teachers perform best after being in the classroom for at least five years, but 46% of teachers leave the profession before reaching this milestone. Burn out, poor working conditions and emotional stress consistently rank as primary reasons teachers leave the profession.

Our staff are highly trained mental health professionals that deliver a wide range of services to meet the different needs of students, educators, school staff, and administrators. These services include:

• Resilience Consultation: On-site support for teachers and administrators, including check-ins, observations, and mediation. Focus areas may include strategies for dealing with stress, effective communication strategies and other types of strengths-based coaching.

• Teacher Resilience Groups/ Principal & Leadership Resilience Groups: Build the resilience of educational staff through facilitated small group conversations. These give staff the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with colleagues, be listened to, and learn effective strategies for coping with stress in a safe and confidential space.

• Project Resilience/ Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Lessons delivered in the classroom to students in 3rd-8th grade using original curriculum developed by Acknowledge Alliance. Project Resilience lessons align with CASEL’s core competencies and include topics such as mindfulness, communication, problem solving, decision making, character strengths, and more.

• Student Counseling: For K-8 students identified as needing clinical intervention for issues such as engagement with learning, trauma, peer relationships or other areas.

• District-level professional development, district working groups, and parent education sessions

Our 2022-2023 results showed the positive impact RCP is having on school communities:

• 92% of educators participating in Resilience Support Groups increased their use of strategies to promote professional resilience

• 84% of educators felt increased empathy and understanding of the lives of their students

 LIFELONG RESILIENCE, SOCIAL EMOTIONAL WELLNESS AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS
FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS AT K-8 SCHOOLS