The Community Leadership Class

The CLC is a school-based project that is designed to support the social-emotional and learning needs of students. Through a series of life engagement exercises and relevant learning modules, students will engage with trauma-informed content and a community service project. The learning modules will help empower students to build personal skills around living in community, waging peace, and leaning in as leaders both in their schools and communities.

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Student Learning

All students enrolled in the Community Leadership Class (CLC) will receive direct and engaging instruction using the Community Leadership Curriculum. The curriculum is designed to be utilized over the course of a semester; however, it is adaptable and suitable for numerous school schedules. The curriculum has been adopted from the very successful PeerCommunity CoCare Program provided by LifeSpheres. During the CLC, students will receive psychoeducation about the effects of trauma, the gifts of adversity, as well as explicit instruction and practice on the Life Engagement Exercises that are uniquely designed for students.

Students will learn from the following modules:

  • Module 1: Strong Individuals and Strong Communities

  • Module 2: Learning Skills for Life

  • Module 3: Our Roles and Responsibilities

  • Module 4: The Theory of Trauma and Recovery

  • Module 5: 3-2-1 Contact! -Communication Skills for Life

  • Module 6: Practicing Leadership in Community

  • Module 7: Critical Thinking- Call it like it is!

  • Module 8: Leadership and the Environment

  • Module 9: Waging Peace

  • Module 10: Considering the Future

All students will receive the Community Leadership Class Student Workbook as a tool to learn and practice life engagement exercises. In addition, students will have an opportunity to engage in service-based learning and will be responsible for creating a community service project that directly benefits their school community.

After successful completion of the CLC, students are eligible to participate in the PeerCommunity CoCare Program as a four-week summer day camp. Even if students opt-out of the PeerCommunity CoCare Program, the Community Leadership Class prepares them for life!

For more information on the PeerCommunity CoCare Program, please visit Turningthetideoftruama.org.