Connect with Cheree
Resilience Consultants provide support to teachers and school staff, and work together to build a positive school climate for high-quality teaching and enriched student learning. As your Resilience Consultant, Cheree is available to you for confidential conversations that will not be used for evaluation of your job performance in any way.
Some of the ways in which our Resilience Consultants are helpful to teachers include:
Giving you emotional support as everyone adjusts to returning to their school community
Encouraging proven practices that support your personal and professional resilience
Sharing information and resources for increasing positive communication and strengthening connections at school
Brainstorming ways to respond to challenging dynamics at school
Facilitating social emotional learning lessons that focus on building student and classroom resilience skills
Observing students, as an extra set of eyes in the classroom, to help gather information on student strengths and needs for your own information, SST meetings, or parent conferences
Strategizing approaches to students, families, and colleagues with a focus towards improving behavior, relationships, and academic performance
Enhancing the social emotional practices of your classroom community with increased understanding of students’ social emotional needs
Engaging in strengths-based reflection, integration, and opportunity conversations with you, which is often the foundation for holding these conversations with your own students
You can contact Cheree by email at Cheree@AcknowledgeAlliance.org
Cheree is a proud Bay Area native. Cheree received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice Administration from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, a Historically Black College and University. Throughout her undergraduate career, Cheree exercised exceptional leadership by serving in the Student Government Association in various capacities including Senior Class Vice President. Cheree continues to volunteer on her class's Homecoming Reunion and University Giveback Campaign Committee. In June 2016, Cheree graduated with her MSW from California State University East Bay, where she received the competitive Title IV-E grant.
Cheree worked in Contra Costa County for five years as a Case Manager in the Differential Response Program with West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau. After graduating with her MSW, Cheree worked as an Emergency Response Social Worker with San Mateo County Children and Family Services for seven years, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of many children and families during her time there. Cheree is passionate about being an advocate for marginalized families and communities impacted disproportionally by systems of oppression. In addition to her work experience, Cheree also finds time to give back through volunteering her time or providing financial support to college bound youth. She is a member of the Northern California Historically Black Colleges and Universities Coalition and the Clark Atlanta University Alumni group, and has participated many times in the annual Black College Expo as well as various college fairs and education workshops throughout the Bay Area. Cheree strongly believes that there is healing in loving and uplifting self and others. This belief has been a guiding force in her personal and professional journey. A few fun facts: Cheree's favorite color is purple and she loves art!
Acknowledge Alliance is a mental health agency that promotes lifelong resilience in children and youth, and strengthens the caring capacity of the adults who influence their lives. Since 1994, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly the Cleo Eulau Center) has used the power of fostering resilience to help build positive connections between teachers and students to open the doors to learning and wellbeing. The foundation of Acknowledge Alliance started with the belief that when a child has a caring adult in their life who holds high expectations and believes in them, they can succeed despite adversities. Acknowledge Alliance serves K-8 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, integrating resilience into all levels of learning by coaching educators, counseling at-risk youth and teaching social emotional learning lessons for the whole classroom.