Helping children find relational and nervous system safety through play and positive memory building experiences

Helping children find relational and nervous system safety through play and positive memory building experiences

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Jessie, Parent

“Tif, you have changed my life. You have changed my parenting, and my teaching, and because of you, (me & my husband)… our family is flourishing. The things that I have learned from you are unbelievable and felt like you deserved to know that. Thank you so much!”

Dr. Bonnie Goff

Bonnie, UCLA

“Thank you for taking the time to share with my classes last week! Their response to your visit was overwhelming. UCLA is a university that values empirical scientific evidence above all, our student rarely encounter experts in the field who are actually on the front-lines, so it’s no surprise to me that they were deeply affected by you and your story! Real world experience is just as valuable as what is happening in the lab.”

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Theresa D, Parent

“We have a teenager who is on the spectrum. He and I have been in a constant back & forth battle for a few years. The things I learned from you today are going to help me professionally as well as personally. Thank you!”

Relational, Integrative, Supportive Experiences, is specialized care for children exhibiting extreme behavior. RISE emerged as a framework for understanding and operationalizing attachment and neuroscience-based caregiving as a result of Tif’s experience and struggle finding harmony and hope within her own family. RISE is a whole new way of being in relationship with children who experienced early loss or adversity.

Relating to and supporting caregivers to consistently meet the high demands of caring for children with intense and complex needs is an essential part of RISE. The RISE Relational Mentor component of RISE has received recognition as a pathway for building hope and self-healing community for isolated families by equipping aunties, uncles, grandparents, teachers, coaches, neighbors etc. to come along side of caregivers to provide consistent intentional, intensive, and specialized care for children across relationships and environments for true recovery and flourishing to happen. When caregivers are both supported in addressing the intensity and frequency of behaviors and provided the opportunity to leave their children in capable hands while they rejuvenate themselves, they can maintain the ability to meet the complex needs of their children.

When children are able to receive a predictable balance of hope-centered nurture and structure, balanced and frequently enough within relationships, environments, and community, nervous system platforms stabilize, they begin to predict safety and build higher function. They recover and thrive.

RISE is what Tif’s family truly needed for healing and recovery and what clients stabilize with, it’s what the science tells us we all need to thrive. RISE is a framework for optimal stabilization and recovery… not a plan for the bare minimum to survive.

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