Our children can pick really inconvenient times to melt down; they throw themselves on the floor in a flood of tears and refuse to go anywhere! They frustrate us when we are trying to get

Hand in Hand as a Trauma-Informed Caregiving Practice by Maya Coleman, PhD and Kristen Volk, MSW Professionals within the fields of mental health, education, and healthcare have begun to recognize the profound short- and long-term

The set of tools you will be learning as you build your Classroom and Student Connection Plans are based on a theory of human emotional functioning that is very much in alignment with recent findings

Starting school, whether it’s for the first time, entering a new school, or even returning to a familiar school after a break, can be a challenge for both our children and ourselves. And we mean

As you are experimenting with the 5 concrete tools you are learning about, feel free to use some of the language below… Special Time Name It & Time It: “We’re going to do something new

During our work together you will be learning about a set of 5 concrete caregiving/teaching strategies originally developed by the non-profit organization Hand in Hand Parenting and now adapted for all members of educational communities.