Bounce Back Training

Bounce Back is a school-based group intervention for elementary students exposed to stressful and traumatic events. With 20-50% of American children experiencing trauma within their families, at their schools, and in their communities, it’s essential to help children heal. Bounce Back teaches students ways to cope with and recover from traumatic experiences, so they can get back to doing what they want to do and need to do.

Designed to be administered by clinicians, Bounce Back is based on the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). The Bounce Back program includes 10 group sessions, 1-3 group parent sessions, and 2-3 individual student sessions.

Bounce Back is designed for children in grades kindergarten through fifth (ages 5 to 11) and has been used most commonly with children who have experienced or witnessed community, family, or school violence; or who have been involved in natural disasters; or who have experienced traumatic separation from a loved one due to death, incarceration, deportation, or child welfare detainment; and who are suffering from moderate to severe levels of PTSD symptoms.

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