The Village Well Fellowship
Program Overview
The Village Well Fellowship is a series of workshops that equips educators and families with the knowledge, skills, and tools to cultivate a more healing-centered home and school environment for their children while developing deep self-awareness of themselves and co-creating a village of support together. This fellowship is unique in that educators and caregivers attend the sessions together to foster trust, and collaboration, honor families’ racial and cultural contributions and build their capacity and knowledge of toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences. By the end of this workshop series, families and educators will be well on their way to communally cultivating a healing-centered practice that interrupts intergenerational, systemic trauma and puts students on the path to thriving both academically and in their social-emotional development.
Fellowship Outcomes
Our Impact
Educators and families will understand their ways of being, explore their socialized identities and its impacts on their work with children, and facilitate their healing practices.
Educators and families will build trust, empathy, and capacity that cultivates a strengthened partnership to help them explore more targeted ways to meet the academic and social-emotional needs of the child in their care.
Build and enhance their capabilities and cognition on trauma-informed practices and toxic stress research to create environments that facilitate and promote healing in schools and homes.
Who is it for?
Educators and Families
How can this improve your school or organization?
100% of participants agreed strongly, “I understand that the parent-teacher partnership is necessary to a child's behavioral and academic development.
100% of participants felt part of a community of parents and educators.
Research shows that mutual trust between parents and educators is essential in creating effective schools.
100% of participants strongly agreed, “I have developed more tools to respond in a restorative, healing-centered way with my child(ren) or my students.”
100% of participants agreed strongly, “I am more hopeful about my capacity to develop a restorative environment for my child/students after my experience in the program.”
“I’m learning and putting into practice the value of building relationships with parents. This is the true healing our school systems need. We need this in schools all over the world.” ”
“[I am] understanding my children’s perspectives better, their anxieties, and what that looks like when presented. [I know] how to understand power dynamics better—power with and power over—the power of working together. I feel the things I am learning will allow me to feel more comfortable implementing the training.”
