A-Team Composition
The Alignment Collaborative through collective impact brings together the strongest community resources in trauma informed care to include but not limited to:
- Advocate Sherman Hospital
- Family Service Association of Greater Elgin
- Gail Borden Library
- Illinois Education Association
- Kane County Health Department
- School District U-46
- Ecker Center
- Elgin Teachers Association
- U-46 Citizens Advisory Council
- Kane County Regional Office of Education Equal Change Program
- Changing Children’s Worlds
A-Team Initiatives
- Established three goals to influence purposeful community change:
- Raising the awareness in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Growing our expertise in trauma informed care
- Addressing staff compassion fatigue
- Collaborated with the Illinois Education Association to provide a work plan for developing trauma informed and resiliency school professionals.
- Identified professional development training for community caregivers and school staff to implement School staff Resiliency Teams at 26 U-46 Schools made up of self-selected staff.
- Conducting Professional Learning Communities (PLC) three times per school year bringing together community subject area experts to work with U-46 teachers and support staff.
- Identified ACE Interface as a train the trainer program to provide adverse childhood experiences training to the community of U-46 and beyond.
- Identified the impacts of caregiver compassion fatigue and developed professional development resources to provide professional development training opportunities for school staff and community caregivers.
- Promoted May 15 as Trauma Informed Care Awareness Day
Trauma Informed Care A-Team Members
Maria Alvarez
Branch Manager
Kane County Teachers’ Credit Union
Jeanne Ang
Director of Primary Care
at Lake County
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Kristine Argue
Director of Professional Development
Illinois Education Association
Vivienne Bailey
Member
Citizen’s Advisory Council
Abby Bosco-Copelin
Licensed Counselor and Social Worker
Ecker Centre
Barbara Bettis
President
Elgin Teachers Association
Anna Czerniak
Program Manager-Children’s Mental Health
Kane County Health Department
Deb Dempsey
Equal Change Program
Regional Office of Education
Rose Diaz
Director of Workforce Development
YWCA of Elgin
Kristin Gilbertson
Teacher Mentor
School District U-46
John Heiderscheidt
Director of Safety & Culture
School District U-46
Danielle Henson
Community Collaboration Coordinator
Gail Borden Public Library
Kathy Kettle
Assistant Director
School District U-46 MTSS Program
Sam LeDeaux
Director
School District U-46 MTSS Program
Kate McCormack
Community Health Practioner
Kane County Health Department
Marie McKee
Social Worker
School District U-46
Mary Myers
Wellness Education Faculty Facilitator
Illinois Math and Science Academy
Billie Moffett
Director Studio 270
Gail Borden Public Library
Doreen Roberts
National Board-Certified Teachers – Teacher Leader
School District U-46
Jennette Siebens
Director of School-Based Mental Health
School District U-46
Laura Smail
School Social Worker
School District U-46
Kimberly Svevo-Cianci
Executive Director
Changing Children’s Worlds
Kiesha Williams
U-46 Social-Emotional Response Team
School District U-46