Echo Resource Development
Echo Resource Development
Empowering and connecting people and the organizations that serve them.

Safe, Healthy, Successful School Communities

Echo  is proud to  support families, schools, and school systems throughout Maryland and Delaware. We provide services and supports including professional development and consulting to  create safe, healthy and successful school communities for our children.

General and Special Education

Our Services

Echo's work, rooted in the Human System Approach, is designed to help move beyond crisis management and harm reduction towards capacity building. 


Through the use of predictive analytics and ecological assessment we help evaluate and  improve the effectiveness and impact of current policies, procedures and practices. 


We are then able to provide unique and relevant supports to students, schools, school systems, families and the organizations that serve them. 

Discipline & Disruptive Youth
Social Emotional Learning
Family & Community Engagement
Disproportionality & Overidentification
Trauma Informed
Resource Development
Discipline & Disruptive Youth

Discipline & Disruptive Youth

Utilizing the  Human Systems Ecological Approach (HSEA),    we help individuals, groups and schools move behaviors from disruptive to productive and positive.  


Incorporating cognitive behavioral and self-regulation approaches we can greatly improve the impact of existing positive behavior systems. This includes PBS, MTSS, Restorative Practices, Responsive Classroom, Conscious Discipline and many others.

  • Individual, cohort and school-wide behavior support

  • Job-embedded and traditional professional development

  • Policy, procedure and practice review and revision

Social Emotional Learning

Social Emotional Learning

Echo's proven HSA helps schools and teachers integrate social-emotional learning and self-regulation into instruction, policies, procedures, and practices. HSA uses predictive analytics, including an understanding of protective and risk factors, to help predict and prevent disruptive behaviors.

  • Integrate social & emotional policies, procedures and practices and instruction
  • Job-embedded and traditional professional development

  • Predictive Analytics

  • Human System Engagement

Family & Community Engagement

Family & Community Engagement

Family and school engagement builds a community that is supportive of the academic and socioemotional success.  The Human Systems Ecological Approach (HSEA)  identifies the constellation of people and factors that promote engagement and success and develops relevant policies, procedures and practices.

  • Ecomapping
  • Positive social epidemics
  • Communication systems
Disproportionality & Overidentification

Disproportionality & Over-identification

Echo, through utilizing Human Systems and our Cognitive Behavioral Approach, helps to identify and address the contributing factors leading to the  over-representation of  under served students identified with a learning or other types of disabilities (disproportionality) and over-identification  in youth.

  • Consulting
  • Job-embedded professional development
  • Individual student and cohort support
Trauma Informed

Trauma Informed

We at Echo help schools and school systems develop and adopt trauma informed, resilience building policies and practices that improve academic, socioemotional, behaviorial and school safety. 

  • Trauma Informed Professional Development
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
Resource Development

Resource Development & Coordination

Echo provides fiscal, human and organizational resource development to support the needs of its partners and clients. We can also help partners and clients manage organizational fiscal, operational and human infrastructure.

  • Grants
  • Donations
  • Fee-for-service

Our Partners