Your Journey Together (YJT)
Your Journey Together:
Building the Resilience of Children and Families
Curriculum Guide for Coaches
Help to improve parenting skills with Your Journey Together (YJT), a research-based, trauma-informed curriculum designed to build resilience in vulnerable children and their families.
YJT is a strength-based curriculum designed to promote the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable children and their families. The YJT curriculum focuses on empowering parents to promote safe, trusting, and healing environments – all key elements of a trauma-sensitive program. While YJT is designed for families with young children (birth through five years old), many of the concepts apply to families with children of all ages.
The goal of YJT is to provide parents and guardians with the knowledge and skills that promote resilience, and help family members better cope with life’s challenges and reach their full potential. Your Journey Together shows parents how to use ordinary, everyday routines, activities and interactions as resilience-building opportunities.
Are you a Head Start or Early Head Start program?
Your Journey Together can help you meet Head Start Performance Standards! Learn more by checking out this informational flyer and/or this alignment tool.
Did you know that YJT is listed as a parenting curricula option for families in Head Start and Early Head Start programs on the Parenting Curriculum Review Databases (PCRD)? Learn more.
If you need help deciding on the right curriculum for your program, check out this Decision-Making Checklist from the National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement: Choosing a Parenting Curriculum for Your Program
