In 2016, the D Jones Family Charitable Foundation became a Funding Partner for the Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR), a regional organization in Chicago promoting access to high quality mental health services for children and adolescents across Illinois. According to CCR, its model of care is centered on what is needed in a child’s life to build their resiliency. Children who are resilient are better able to cope with challenges, manage stress and make healthy choices.
The grant provided by the D Jones Family Charitable Foundation to CCR specifically supports its Bounce Back Intervention Program with the aim of bringing the program to more Chicago areas schools as well as to support the development of web-based training that will assist CCR in disseminating the program on a much broader and, ultimately, national scale.
About the Bounce Back Intervention Program
Funded by the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation and led by the CCR in partnership with Cicero Public School District 99 and Loyola University Chicago Clinical Psychology PhD program, the project seeks to establish Bounce Back (BB) as an evidence-based curriculum for addressing symptoms of trauma and violence in young children.
The study aims to contribute to the evidence base for BB to help establish it as an evidence-based curriculum for use in schools nationally. Ultimately, the research will help to meet the need of urban and primarily low SES and ethnic minority children who have the highest risk of trauma exposure, yet are the least likely to access care from traditional mental health resources. Visit CCR to Learn More
About the Center for Childhood Resilience
The Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) is a regional organization promoting access to high quality mental health services for children and adolescents in Illinois through clinical service, research, training, advocacy and policy reform. Housed within one of the nation’s top pediatric hospitals, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the Center is uniquely positioned to advance innovative and evidence-based strategies and solutions to address comprehensive mental health reform and build a trauma-informed city and state.
The CCR trains school and clinical professionals, as well as community agencies, how to use innovative and evidence-based approaches when working with children who have experienced trauma. The CCR also works with community leaders and policy makers to ensure statewide systems and resources support best practices in behavioral health. Visit CCR to Learn More
Scroll through the Picture Gallery above to see CCR Executive Director Colleen Cichetti, Ph.D., meeting with students and staff at Chicago public schools.