Early care and education (ECE) is an important developmental context for nurturing resilience with young children experiencing adversity. In particular, strengthening the capabilities of adult caregivers, such as ECE teachers, to mitigate the effects of toxic stressors is of central importance to children’s learning, health, and development. Yet, few ECE teachers have access to professional supports focused on meeting the needs of children impacted by trauma. The current study examines a new program that aims to help fill this gap for both home-based and center-based ECE programs: Roots of Resilience: Teachers’ Awakening Children’s Healing. Roots of Resilience is a professional development program consisting of an online course and online video-based coaching. In a small randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 17 classrooms/groups, 23 teachers, and 61 children we examine program impacts on three protective factors: emotionally supportive teacher-child interactions, children’s engagement and children’s school readiness skills. Findings revealed significant impacts of teachers’ participation in Roots of Resilience on (observed) emotionally supportive teacher-child interactions at post, controlling for baseline scores and teacher education. Children whose teachers were randomly assigned to participate in Roots of Resilience showed reductions in (observed) negative engagement and increases in direct assessments of math skills, compared to children whose teachers were assigned to the waitlist control group. No impacts on children’s (observed) positive engagement, nor direct assessments of self-regulation or early literacy were detected. Further research with a larger and more diverse sample is needed to more definitively examine program impacts, identify mechanisms of influence, and address questions about which teachers and/or children may benefit most.

早期护理和教育（ECE）是在经历逆境的幼儿中培养适应力的重要发展环境。尤其是，加强成人护理人员（如ECE教师）减轻有毒应激源影响的能力对儿童的学习，健康和发展至关重要。然而，很少有欧洲经委会的老师能够获得专注于满足受创伤影响的儿童需求的专业支持。当前的研究考察了一个旨在弥补家庭和基于中心的ECE计划的空白的新计划：复原力的根源：教师唤醒儿童的治疗。韧性根源是一项专业发展计划，包括在线课程和基于视频的在线辅导。在一个由17个教室/小组，23位老师和61名儿童组成的小型随机对照试验（RCT）中，我们研究了计划对三个保护因素的影响：情感上支持师生互动，孩子们的参与度和孩子们的入学准备技能。调查结果显示，教师参与韧性根源对（观察到的）情绪支持的师生互动具有显着影响，控制了基础分数和教师教育。随机分配老师参加复原力根源的孩子与将老师分配到候补名单对照组的孩子相比，他们发现（观察到的）负面参与减少了，对数学技能的直接评估也增加了。没有发现对儿童（观察到的）积极参与有任何影响，也没有发现对自我调节或早期识字率的直接评估。需要更广泛，更多样化的样本进行进一步研究，以更明确地检查计划的影响，确定影响机制并解决有关哪些老师和/或儿童可能受益最大的问题。