Program areas at Momentous Institute
Momentous School - Momentous School provides high-quality prekindergaren 3 - fifth grade education focused on building strong emotional and academic skills for long-term success. Momentous School's culture of creating a positive student-centered environment based on safe relationships remained at the core of all practices throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Teachers continued to train on understanding the impact of trauma on the brtain learning how to recognize symptoms of trauma, and using strategies to help children self-regulate and build persistence.
Professional Training - Momentous Institute's Professional Training programs provide tangible, proven strategies for implemnting mental health informed learning to enhance a child's success through virtual, on-demand and in-person training sessions. In 2022, our team continued to champion mental health informed social emotional learning by directly serving adult professionals who work to improve the academic success and overall well-being of children typically beyond our reach.
Mental Health Services - Providing high-quality, trauma informed care is at the core of everything we do at Momentous Instititute. In 2022 our team continued to provide holistic, low barrier mental health services focused on systemic care, relationships, and strenght-based interventions. We intentionally offer these services in-person or virtually, through a variety of treatment approaches including individual, family, group, or play.
Research - Momentous Institute is passionate about investing in research to directly reach more children with trauma-informed strategies that strenthen social emotional health. Each year, Momentous Institute follows Momentous School students' long-term trajectories and tracks improvements in the social emotional health of therapy clients and parent education participants. The Scholarship program provides financial and mentoring support for former Momentous School students and therapeutic services clients as they pursue post-secondary education. Program results and outcomes are reported and analyzed annually with the Program Development and Evaluation Committee and then with the board of directors.