Boston Children's Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships | Training and Access Project (TAP)

The Clough Foundation Training and Access Project (TAP) focuses on building the capacity of school communities to address social-emotional learning and behavioral health. It does this through offering comprehensive professional development and tailored consultation to school communities. TAP also offers free online trainings for educators, clinicians, and school staff everywhere.

Since 2015, TAP has facilitated workshops for educators and school-based clinicians. TAP provides both live webinars and asynchronous learning opportunities to support the strengthening and sharing of knowledge, practices, resources, and connections to build capacity to address social-emotional learning and behavioral health in schools.

In the first six years of the program, TAP engaged in two-year partnerships with 25 Boston Public Schools. Each school received up to 120 hours of individualized consultation along with up to 40 hours of professional development through a Learning Collaborative. The TAP consultants would meet regularly on site with a team from the school, and together developed goals and action plans to work toward sustainable systems within the school to address social, emotional, and behavioral health. TAP also facilitated a Learning Collaborative where all partnering schools would meet to engage in professional development. This provided an opportunity for the schools to build knowledge and skills and learn from one another.

Building on the work in schools, TAP has expanded its focus to a district level by providing professional development for school-based clinicians across the Boston Public Schools. The TAP team consists of social workers and psychologists each with a background in school-based behavioral health.

Including the webinar series and online trainings, TAP has reached more than 11,000 school-based professionals through professional development. To learn more about TAP’s webinar for school-based clinicians, please visit our website.

We would like to thank the Gloria and Charles Clough Foundation, Manton Foundation, and C.F. Adams Charitable Trust for making this project possible.