Teaching the Skills of Resilience
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“Root Causes, Real Solutions: What Every School Can Learn from the Community Schools Model“
Every school is feeling the pressure: rising absenteeism, student mental health concerns, disengagement, and staff burnout. These aren’t just surface-level challenges—they’re signs of deeper, systemic issues that require a whole-child, whole-community approach.
That’s where the Community Schools model provides powerful insights—and WhyTry offers proven, practical tools that schools everywhere can use.
Your Partner for
Student Wellness
and Resilience
For more than 20 years, WhyTry has led the way. Our practical resources and effective tools have helped educators across the country. WhyTry can help you address mental health issues, following evidence-based practices and using a trauma-informed approach. Let’s partner to build resilience in every student.
Programs
WhyTry teaches the skills of resilience. It’s typically offered to at-risk youth. Resilience for youth teaches the sources of resilience and is often rolled out school-wide.
Training
Learn the skills to engage your students, creating a positive learning environment where students can thrive.
Administrator Toolkit
Our administrators toolkit brings structure and purpose to your team meetings and staff developments.
Success Stories
Lake Chelan School District
Learn how staff, administrators, and students all worked together to improve academic success by combining WhyTry with a peer support network.
Bismarck Public Schools
Learn how Wendy Bakken, a Speech Pathologist at Bismarck High School, uses WhyTry to engage and motivate any student.
20+
Years In Business
200k
Trained Educators
30k
Schools
3 million +
Students Impacted
The Whytry program
Motivate any student
WhyTry is a flexible toolkit and curriculum for teachers and counselors. It provides simple,
hands-on strategies and resources to help motivate the unmotivated student, support students with trauma, improve engagement, and increase academic success.
Why Choose Whytry?
Empowering Administrators
Our Administrator Toolkit is a trusted tool leadership teams can use to transform school culture. Leaders use the toolkit to create a shift in perspective with teachers and staff and help them build caring relationships with students that motivate and inspire trust.