The Center for Resilient Schools and Communities works with Spartanburg County families, schools, and communities to build supports and systems that increase children’s success, particularly in neighborhoods where educational disparities exist.
We believe that every person can achieve success when provided with the necessary resources and support to overcome challenges. Together we can make the impossible achievable.
How We Do It
Evidence-based training
The Center for Resilient Schools and Communities provides Evidence-Based Training for a wide range of professionals in the form of workshops and group training.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement is focused on topic-centered workshops, Social Work, and continuing education to help those in our communities and neighborhoods.
Our Goals
What’s the connection with sam?
The Spartanburg Academic Movement’s Center for Resilient Schools and Communities is an initiative to empower children, families, neighborhoods, and schools with the tools they need to build resilience.
The Center also works with supporting agencies that serve those four groupings with the tools they need to develop personal and community resilience. This work is instrumental in reaching the Spartanburg Academic Movement goal to build economic mobility anchored in academic achievement.
The Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) is a non-profit organization working to convene partners, align resources, and advance equity to improve economic mobility anchored in academic achievement. SAM’s work uses the StriveTogether cradle-through-career framework for building success across Spartanburg County.
SAM has been working for more than a decade to uncover factors that negatively impact a child’s chances for academic success. Poverty and race have long been linked to high rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Each of these factors creates unique conditions that can reduce a child’s ability to succeed in school. Academic success is linked with lifelong economic stability and mobility. Therefore, working in these high areas of need to improve the resilience of children and families is a natural fit for the work of SAM.