Get certified to teach the Resilient Mind Skills to children and help them understand their minds and bodies, communicate what they’re experiencing, and develop healthy skills for navigating life’s challenges. Our children are our greatest asset and our future leaders. They deserve the best we can offer them.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Children need more than academic knowledge to thrive in today's world. They need to understand what is happening in their minds and bodies, have language to communicate their emotions and experiences, and know how to respond when life doesn't go as planned.
Resilient Mind Skills certification prepares educators and mental health professionals who work with children to teach practical skills for self-awareness, healthy coping, and self-regulation.
Whether you're a K–12 educator or a mental health clinician, this fully online, asynchronous course will help you learn the skills for yourself and prepare you to share them with the children in your sphere of influence.
In this course you’ll learn it, practice it, then teach it.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants become Certified Resilient Mind Skills for Children Instructors.
Why Take this Course?
Help Children do more than survive. Help them thrive.
Earn a professional certification
Mental health professionals will earn 45 CE credits and educators, or those desiring academic credit will earn 3 academic credits.
Build important skills for life
Resilient Mind Skills helps adults and children recognize what is happening internally and develop healthier ways to respond to life's everyday challenges.
Get upstream with prevention in your community
Resilience isn't something we should wait to teach until a child is struggling. Our goal is not simply to help children get through difficult moments. We want to give them skills that can help them thrive today and throughout life.
Course Overview
Learn it yourself before you teach it. Resilient Mind Skills is more than training in how to deliver a curriculum. You will experience and practice the skills yourself before learning to teach them to children.
Participants begin by learning the principles and practices of Mind Body Bridging, with opportunities to apply the skills in their own lives, practice throughout the course, reflect on their experiences, and assess their progress.
From there, participants learn how to translate these concepts into developmentally appropriate experiences for children.
Course topics include:
- Mind Body Bridging principles and practices
- Helpful and unhelpful states of mind
- Connections among thoughts, emotions, biology, and behavior
- Practical coping and self-regulation strategies
- Trauma-informed teaching practices
- Child development and developmental milestones
- Strategies for scaffolding Resilient Mind Skills across ages and developmental levels
- Practice applying and teaching the Resilient Mind Skills curriculum
There's an added benefit to this approach: when we learn how to help children navigate life in healthier ways, we often strengthen those same skills in ourselves.
Through the curriculum, children learn to:
- Identify helpful and unhelpful states of mind
- Develop a shared vocabulary for communicating their internal experiences
- Understand connections between the mind, body, emotions, and behavior
- Practice healthy coping and self-regulation strategies
- Navigate disappointment, setbacks, and unmet expectations
- Respond more effectively when things don't go their way
- Develop skills that help them become regulated and ready to learn
The curriculum is designed primarily for students in grades 3–12, with principles and activities that can be adapted for other K–12 settings.
Leave Ready to Teach
Participants receive a complete collection of materials for bringing Resilient Mind Skills to the children they serve:
- Mind Body Bridging Principles and Practices Workbook
- Resilient Mind Skills for Children Workbook (Elementary and Secondary)
- 5 ready-to-use lesson plans
- 5 accompanying PowerPoint presentations
- Accompanying posters and activities for each lesson
- Certification as a Certified Resilient Mind Skills Instructor
To receive full course credit and certification, participants must complete all course modules and submit all required assignments.
Eligibility
Participants must meet one of the following criteria prior to registering for this course:
- Hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree in education and certificate to teach K-12 students. Priority will be given to teachers currently employed at a school.
- Hold a minimum of a master’s degree and DOPL licensure to provide mental health services to children.
How To Register
Choose your course. All three course pathways provide Resilient Mind Skills training and lead to certification. Choose the option that fits your professional or academic needs.
Bachelor level educators should register for SW 5910.
Masters level educators and/or mental health professionals desiring academic credit should register for SW 6910.
Mental health professionals desiring continuing education credit should register for CESS 5700.
*SW 5910 and SW 6910 fulfill elective credit requirements for social work majors.
Mental Health Professionals
CESS 5700 | Continuing Education
Choose CESS 5700 if you are seeking continuing education credit.
- Fully online and asynchronous
- 45 continuing education hours
- Regular tuition: $600
- Course materials included
- Certified Resilient Mind Skills Instructor credential upon successful completion
*Utah licensees: Because limits may apply to the number of asynchronous continuing education hours that count toward professional licensure requirements, participants should verify current requirements for their individual license. (Utah social workers are limited to 15 asynchronous hours per license renewal cycle).
Special Introductory Offer
The first 50 eligible clinicians receive 50% off tuition, with the designated discount code.
Now enrolling for Fall Semester. Registration accepted through November 1, 2026.
Next enrollment: Spring 2027
Bachelor’s level/Teaching Certificate Academic Credit
SW 5910 | 3 Academic Credits
Choose SW 5910 if you want academic credit and your highest level of education is a bachelor's degree.
- 3 academic credits
- Fully online and asynchronous
- Course materials included
- Certified Resilient Mind Skills Instructor credential upon successful completion
Now enrolling for Spring 2027 semester. Registration accepted through February 1, 2027
Master's-Level/Teaching Certificate Academic Credit
SW 6910 | 3 Academic Credits
Choose SW 6910 if you want academic credit and your highest level of education is a master's degree.
- 3 graduate academic credits
- Fully online and asynchronous
- Course materials included
- Certified Resilient Mind Skills Instructor credential upon successful completion
Now enrolling for Spring 2027 semester. Registration accepted through February 1, 2027
Have a question?
Course Contact
Tami Curtis
Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work
tami.curtis@usu.edu
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