Heart Core School-Based Wellness Collaborative
Every day, school-based mental health and wellness providers help students navigate the challenges they face in and outside of school. While clinical interventions may effectively strengthen student coping skills in the counseling room, too often students return to stressors in the school environment that can contribute to ongoing dysregulation — a sudden change in routine, a challenging interaction, or a disciplinary practice that the student perceives as a threat. School-based mental health and wellness providers also witness firsthand the significant stress experienced by school staff. These experiences call for an expanded approach that fosters not only individual change and healing, but also school-wide change and healing.
The Heart Core School-Based Wellness Collaborative was created to address this gap. Grounded in the HEARTS whole-school prevention and intervention approach, this 9-month community-of-practice is designed for school-based mental health and wellness providers who are ready to deepen their clinical practice and transform school environments through a trauma-informed and healing-centered lens.
September 2026 - May 2027
Applications now open.
Cost
The requested fee is $1800 per participant. We offer a sliding scale option and discount for team registration. Please let us know what is possible for you in the interest form.
Who Should Apply
This collaborative is designed specifically for school-based mental health and wellness providers interested in expanding their role beyond direct student services. This includes: school counselors, social workers, school psychologists, school-based therapists, wellness coordinators, and other professionals responsible for supporting student mental health and wellbeing.
What You’ll Gain
Through your participation in the Heart Core School-Based Wellness Collaborative, you will:
Confidently translate trauma-informed principles into Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports for students and staff
Gain access to tools and strategies you can use immediately
Feel connected to a community of professionals who understand your work
Tentative Program Structure
Helping school-based mental health and wellness professionals bridge the gap between clinical expertise and school-wide change.
Sample Dilemma a School Social Worker Might Bring to Consultation
“I work in a school with a moderate level of need. We’ve had some turnover at the administrative level, but most teachers are having a good year and enjoying their classes. One teacher in particular has been struggling with classroom management and, specifically, with a small group of students who sometimes “talk back” when the teacher gives instructions or redirections. I’d like to learn how to support this teacher, both by providing co-regulation and teaching self-management skills, and by strengthening the teacher’s ability to build safe, dependable structures in the classroom and respond to students in a non-punitive way.”
