Trauma-Informed and Culturally Responsive (TICR) practices represent an approach that recognizes how stress, adversity, and trauma — whether personal, historical, or systemic — can impact the way students and staff learn, work, and build relationships.

The Bridge TICR Program is designed for educators in all arenas. This includes:

• Leadership Educators - school administrators, school board members, principals, assistant principals
• Educators In the Classroom - teachers, teachers aides, behavioral health support etc.
• Educators Outside the Classroom - bus drivers, cafeteria staff, coaches etc.

The Bridge TICR Program is designed to be flexible and accessible, with options for both in-person and virtual delivery. The training includes 20 hours of content divided into four modules, each focusing on a different area of the school community to support student success and staff well-being.

Schools can choose to complete the training in several ways:

• Intensive format: All modules delivered over 2.5 consecutive days
• Staggered format: One module delivered every few months throughout the school year
• Extended format: Modules broken into shorter 2-hour sessions spread across one or multiple school years

The program goes beyond training to focus on implementation. A team of school or district-based “champions” leads the ongoing application of the program, ensuring concepts are integrated into daily practice, tracked over time, and evaluated for impact. This implementation team is guided by one of our  experts.

The Bridge TICR Program covers a comprehensive range of topics designed to support trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and relationship-centered practices in schools.

Key areas include:

• Understanding Trauma: Definitions and types of trauma, including individual, historical, intergenerational, racial, and system-induced trauma
• Healing-Centered Engagement: Strategies for supporting healing from trauma through culturally responsive, whole-school, whole-child approaches
• Integration with MTSS: How to embed trauma-informed practices within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework
• Restorative Practices: Using restorative approaches to discipline that promote accountability and relationship repair
• Educator Well-Being: Tools to assess and support staff wellness, including burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction—the joy and meaning educators find in their work
  
  

The program equips school communities with practical tools and a shared language to foster resilience, connection, and sustainable support for both students and staff. The training experience is designed to give your school a relationship-centered approach to student academic and behavioral success while equipping educators with tools to manage personal stress and find greater fulfillment.

Unlike many trauma-informed trainings that are one-time sessions or limited in scope, the Bridge TICR Program is a comprehensive, sustainable model designed for long-term impact. It not only provides deep, research-based training but also builds internal capacity within your school system through our Train-the-Trainer model.

As part of the program, select team members participate as Culture Coaches — they shadow the training and learn to deliver the content themselves. These coaches become leaders in trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices, guiding your school or district through implementation, supporting staff, and sustaining the work over time.

This approach ensures that trauma-informed practices are not just introduced — but fully embedded and maintained — within the culture of your school community.

Yes, the Bridge TICR Program is designed with flexibility in mind. While it is grounded in a proven foundation that supports schools across a variety of contexts, it can be tailored to address the specific priorities, challenges, and goals of your school, district, or organization.

We take a collaborative approach — your team can share what’s most important to your community, and we’ll align those needs with effective strategies and resources that have worked across diverse educational settings.

One of the best ways to prepare is by identifying the areas of greatest need within your school community. During our initial discovery call, we guide you through an informal needs assessment to help pinpoint specific challenges — whether related to student behavior, academic performance, staff well-being, or retention.

This process helps us tailor the program to your unique context and ensures that our support is targeted and impactful from the start.

Yes. The Bridge TICR Program provides a comprehensive set of tools designed for both individual educators and entire school systems.

Participants receive a Bridge TICR Workbook that includes over 30+ handouts and practical exercises. These tools cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Creating Regulation Stations in classrooms
• Leading Connection Sessions to foster emotional safety
• Identifying signs of trauma in students — and knowing how to respond
• Supporting educator well-being and building a culture of mutual staff support

For administrators and school leadership, the program also includes tools and guidance for:

• Developing and leading implementation teams
• Sustaining the work through Culture Coaches trained in the Train-the-Trainer model
• Embedding trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices school-wide
  
  

These tools are designed not just for learning — but for long-term, consistent application, so the practices become part of the everyday culture in schools.

Yes. The Bridge TICR Program is more than a one-time training — it’s a long-term capacity-building model.

After the initial training, schools form an implementation team of internal champions who help carry the work forward. In addition, the program includes a Culture Coach component, where selected leaders receive in-depth training and coaching through our Train-the-Trainer model. These coaches are equipped to lead ongoing training and implementation efforts within their own schools or districts.

If requested, we also offer ongoing coaching for school and district leaders, as well as in-class coaching through the Culture Coaches, to ensure continued progress and support.

The Bridge TICR Program is designed to improve both student and staff outcomes across multiple areas. Expected results include:

• Stronger educator-student relationships, which are foundational to engagement and resilience
• Increased student engagement and ability to persevere academically
• Reduced behavioral disruptions, leading to more consistent instructional time
• Improved academic performance and a greater sense of belonging among students—factors that contribute to lower absenteeism and dropout rates
• Streamlined systems for identifying and supporting students in need, reducing time out of class and improving access to the right supports
• Enhanced educator well-being, including lower burnout and compassion fatigue, and increased job satisfaction (also known as compassion satisfaction)
  
  

These outcomes support a more connected, resilient, and effective school environment where both students and staff can thrive.