Partner school districts in the Southland Initiative include:
Resilient Southern Illinois is the Partnership for Resilience’s second local network. It’s school district members include:
- Buncombe Consolidated School District 43
- Carbondale Elementary School District 95
- Carbondale High School District 165
- Carrier Mills-Stonefort Community Unit School District 2
- Eldorado Community Unit School District 4
- Giant City Community Consolidated School District 130
- Herrin Community Unit School District 4
- Johnston City Community Unit School District 1
- Meridian Community Unit School District 101
- Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186
- Pinckneyville High School District 101
- Regional Office of Education 21 – Project ECHO and STAR Quest
- Sparta Community Unit School District 140
- Tamaroa Grade School District 5
- Unity Point Community Consolidated School District 140
- Vienna Elementary District 55
- Vienna High School District 133
RSI aims to bring awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma-responsive practices to the area’s Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Programs including Childcare, Head Start, and Pre-K. We are working to better meet the needs of Southern Illinois’s children by creating coordination and alignment between the ECCE programs and K-12 systems.
The Springfield Resiliency Initiative Support leader will work in fostering a Partnership for Resilience between the Springfield Public School District 186 (SPS) and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) in creating and operating a network of trauma responsive schools. Under the umbrella of the “Springfield Resilience Initiative” (SRI) and SRI Steering Committee, the BBSS/SRI Support leader will assist teachers, administrators, staff, as well community partners in their efforts to create schools that allow children who have experienced adversity to thrive.
