Celebrating
20 Years
of the DECA Program
Welcome to the Devereux Center for Resilient Children (DCRC)!
Our mission is to promote social and emotional development, foster resilience, and build skills for school and life success in children birth through school-age, as well as to promote the resilience of the adults who care for them. We accomplish this by doing research and producing resources for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and adults. And our partnership with Aperture Education brings social and emotional learning and resilience to school-age children.
Why Resilience?
The Latest at DCRC
One-stop page for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants
DCRC welcomes infant and early childhood mental health consultants to a brand new web page that our team has created to support the mental health consultation community, in understanding how our resilience-focused resources complement consultation services. We’ve recognized the need to make it easier for all of our consultant friends to navigate our website for the information, tools and resources they need. Check it out today!
Now in Spanish! Devereux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS)
We are thrilled to announce that we have translated the full, four-page version of the Devereux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS) for Spanish-speaking professionals and families! It’s been a long-time coming, and we just can’t wait for folks to start utilizing it. Be sure to give it a look, and please spread the good news!
One-stop page for Head Start and Early Head Start programs
As more and more Head Start and Early Head Start programs continue use of DCRC resources, we felt it was time to create a one-stop page for that exact audience. We wanted to make it easier for all of our Head Start friends to navigate our website for information, tools and resources more relevant to them. This page highlights the Head Start Performance Standards that DCRC can help Head Start programs meet, the resources that can be used to do so, access to webinars specific to Head Start and more.
Resilience training following Hurricane Harvey
DCRC was recently awarded a contract with the Texas Center for Child and Family Studies (The Center) to provide resilient leadership training following Hurricane Harvey. Conducted over 10 training sessions, DCRC will educate child welfare leaders on how to build resilence within themselves and their organizations while dealing with a traumatic event, such as a hurricane.
A new, one-day training topic
We’ve recently developed a new, one-day training entitled, “Building Resilience and Healing from Trauma in Early Childhood Settings.” The goal of this new training is to raise the awareness of participants around what trauma is, and what the impact of trauma and toxic stress looks like in both young children and adults. Click below to learn more or contact DCRC Director of Professional Development Debi Mahler at [email protected] or (610) 574-6141.
