Our training director Cindy Carraway-Wilson recently spoke with two youth leaders from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence’s (NRCDV) Youth Advisory Board about their design and launch of the Triumph Over Trauma campaign. This youth-led campaign is aimed at helping participants normalize and destigmatize their experiences with trauma and adversity and explore ways to grow from them to a place of healing. The conversation is a meaningful example of positive youth development in action, we hope you’ll listen and let us know what you think.

Over the past three years our work examined how America’s schools could most successfully find and support the best teacher leaders through multiple podcasts with education experts and evidence-based briefs and guides. But as of March 2025 our work was DOGED, our contract cancelled, and the meaningful work we were doing, terminated. Today many of us are out of the education game, for how long we don’t know. Nevertheless, our job is to speak up, show up, and most importantly, not give up.