CBI Pilot Modules
This cognitive behavioral intervention (CBI) curriculum equips young people with practical tools to manage stress, build emotional awareness, and develop effective coping strategies. Here you'll find both five-minute “Quick Connects” and 45-minute group applications for each of the six core modules included in the pilot.
Understanding Emotions (Emojis) and Frustration Tolerance
A portable reference tool that helps participants identify and manage their emotions with an emoji chart, build frustration tolerance, and respond to challenges.
Understanding Emotions and Frustration Tolerance
A portable reference tool that helps participants identify and manage their emotions, build frustration tolerance, and respond to challenges.
Thought Distortions and Conflict Resolution
A portable reference tool that helps participants recognize unhelpful thought patterns and apply practical strategies to resolve conflicts effectively and constructively.
Problem Solving and Goal Setting
A portable reference tool that provides clear steps and strategies to help participants work through challenges, set realistic goals, and take purposeful action toward achieving them.
Mindfulness and Deep Breathing
A portable reference tool that guides participants through simple breathing and mindfulness techniques to help reduce stress, increase focus, and support emotional well-being.
Know Your Rights
A portable reference tool that highlights key personal rights to help participants stay informed, safe, and confident when interacting with law enforcement
Healthy Relationships and Setting Boundaries
A portable reference tool that outlines essential boundary-setting skills to help participants build healthy relationships, strengthen communication, and support personal well-being.
Empathy and Reflective Listening
A portable reference tool that highlights key reflective listening skills to help participants build understanding, strengthen connections, and foster empathy.
Values Glossary
A list of clearly defined values that helps participants recognize, compare, and choose the ones most meaningful to them.
Empathy
This session teaches participants to build empathy by exploring others’ perspectives and life experiences, particularly in challenging situations. Through perspective-taking exercises, participants learn to understand underlying struggles, listen attentively, and respond with greater compassion and insight.
Understanding Integrity and Accountability
This session introduces integrity and accountability, showing how matching actions to words builds trust. Participants reflect on real-life situations, learning to own mistakes, make amends, and take small steps to demonstrate accountability.
Self-Advocacy Action Plan
A guided activity that helps participants identify the four key components of self-advocacy and use them to create a personalized action plan.
Goal Setting
This session guides participants in setting and working toward goals using the SMART framework—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. It emphasizes breaking big goals into small, actionable steps, committing to a plan, and identifying support to stay accountable while maintaining motivation.
Finding and Using Community Resources
This session teaches participants how to identify and access community resources for basic needs, education, employment, mental health, and legal support. It emphasizes using trusted connectors, being prepared, overcoming barriers, and following through to effectively get help and improve one’s situation.
Social Media 101
This session helps participants recognize automatic thoughts that influence social media use and understand the potential consequences of impulsive online behavior. Using a brief CBT-based strategy—Pause, Check, Rewind, Play—participants practice making thoughtful decisions to protect their privacy, relationships, and digital reputation.
Setting Personal Boundaries
This session introduces personal boundaries, helping participants recognize different types—physical, emotional, time, material, and digital—and identify one they want to set. Using a simple formula, participants practice clearly expressing their boundaries to protect their space, feelings, and relationships.