“You have just given me a way to be the teacher I’ve always wanted to be, in my heart.” ~ 2nd grade teacher after completing training program.

“Toolbox helps you take on things you couldn’t take on before you had Toolbox. It helps me with some of my fears . . . and to understand what is going on around me.” ~ 4^th grade student

“Toolbox is like having a school inside you, if you use them [the Tools] . . . you’re good!” ~ 3^rd grade student

“The underlying message of Toolbox isn’t, ‘I’m here to fix you because you’re a broken kid’, it’s ‘let me tell you about the resources you have inside you that you don’t even know about.” ~Bonnie Benard,  author of Resiliency:  What We Have Learned

Awards for Toolbox Curriculum Program

• 2007  Sonoma County Community Service Project award, Board of Supervisors and Volunteer Center of Sonoma County; commendation from Representative Lynn Woolsey.
• 2000  Jack London Award for Educational Excellence from Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.
• 1999   “Program of Excellence” from the Sonoma County Office of Education.