Empower yourself,
transform your world.
Supporting educators, service providers, and young people.
A Thousand Joys is a California-based 501c3 nonprofit organization that forms powerful partnerships to shift how educators and service providers engage with youth and families. We incorporate mental health, educational, and leadership expertise to intentionally build an organization’s capacity to counteract trauma and to cultivate resilience.
Because trauma and stress are prevalent and are often occupational hazards of working in helping professions, we expand participants’ professional knowledge while strengthening their capacity to cultivate their own resilience. Knowing that individual growth does not happen in isolation, we collaborate with leaders to strengthen their organizational cultures, drawing on our core resources while also crafting a customized approach.
Our Partners
Our partners are EMPOWER-ERS that work with some of the most vulnerable and marginalized populations and that focus on enabling youth to fulfill their potential. In addition to schools, we partner with youth-focused organizations, such as youth development, mentoring, and workforce development for teens and transition-aged youth. We support our partners as they explore questions like: How can we create working and learning environments that enable our staff to grow and thrive such that we may better serve youth? How can we be more resilient as individuals and as an organization? How can we better manage stress in the dynamic times in which we are living?
Our Services
Via training, coaching, and consultation, A Thousand Joys upskills and uplifts educators and service providers who serve youth and families. We incorporate mental health, educational, and leadership expertise to intentionally build an organization’s capacity to counteract trauma and to cultivate resilience. We facilitate highly interactive professional development that builds educators’ and service providers’ skills while strengthening teams and learning communities. We encourage participants to candidly engage with each other while tackling challenges, with an eye to developing both individuals’ skills and organizational capacity. Our programs are all grounded in our research-based foundational framework, the ATJ 4Rs of Resilience.
Our Team
Our consulting team consists of clinical social workers, trauma therapists, educators, and non-profit leaders. We consciously work to create a diverse team that is open-minded, self-reflective, aware of their own cultural perspective, and who value the lived experiences of others. We are motivated by compassion and respect for our organizational partners and our teammates, as well as a vision of what we can accomplish together.
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Contact
We would love to connect with you. Please reach out anytime with any questions.
Email
info@athousandjoys.org