"If you are looking to bring commitment, empathy, and compassion to the work you do and ignite a positive culture and approach, work with Five Ives." -Jen Potter, Lancaster Thrive to Five (Head Start Program)
Behavior Breakthrough
increases staff retention with behavior supports that actually work.
Practical strategies.
Expert support.
Real solutions.
Our membership program gives early childhood programs the tools, guidance, and community they need to handle challenging behaviors with confidence.
Because every child deserves support. And so does your staff.
"Five Ives is what you've been looking for."
-Becky Dobbins, Lighted Pathway
Are you seeing an increase in challenging behavior? Struggling to recruit and retain qualified teachers?
You are not alone. Programs across the country (world?!) are struggling.
It isn't easy to support a classroom full of children when there is one child hanging off the curtain rod, one launching from a chair onto other students, and another clinging onto your leg all day long. It is exhausting.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
With the right behavior supports, coaching, and real-world strategies, your staff can feel confident, capable, and equipped to handle behaviors without frustration or burnout.
That’s where Behavior Breakthrough comes in.
Research-Backed Interventions:
Neuroscience and Traumatology
When you work with us, expect more than buzzwords and feel-good phrases that don't move the needle.
Our interventions are backed by science and they really work. We give you practical and simple steps to make an impact right away.
In bite-sized content, we equip you with tools that are game-changing (and often life-changing--it was for us!).
Behavior Breakthrough is a membership-based behavior support system designed to equip early childhood educators with practical strategies, expert coaching, and real-time solutions for managing challenging behaviors.
Game-Changing Training and Coaching Sessions
Early childhood educators love learning with us—because our strategies actually work. And you’ll love the results: happier staff, stronger retention, and less time spent managing challenging behaviors.
Proven Impact: A Case Study
Meet Rose.*
Rose was a lead classroom teacher, and she was doing everything right. She had a well-stocked calm corner, followed her SEL curriculum with care, and truly wanted what was best for every child in her classroom.
But one child was "defiant"—spending most of the day in the calm corner and avoiding large group time entirely, refusing to come out of the corner for lessons. Despite her efforts, the daily disruptions began to wear on her. The constant pattern was unsustainable for everyone.
After working with a Behavior Breakthrough coach, Rose discovered simple, practical strategies that helped re-engage the child in large group time—without removing the calming space. Not only did the child start participating again, but Rose also stopped spending valuable time and energy dealing with behavior and trying to coax the child to the large group.
With a few small adjustments, both the child and the classroom found their rhythm again.
There are countless teachers just like Rose who have been impacted by these simple strategies. We would love to help you, too!
Behavior Breakthrough: What's Inside?
Five Ives exists to help you, and we want to show you how Behavior Breakthrough does just that. Here is what's inside the membership.
Behavior Breakthrough Training Curriculum
All Behavior Breakthrough members receive access to our support curriculum. You receive eight self-paced online training modules that address challenging behavior in a trauma-sensitive way.
In addition to the video content, you receive targeted support through implementation support tools that help you take action right away.
Each lesson also comes with a quick reference guide, making it easier for supervisors to revisit the content with classroom teachers and aides who need behavior supports.
The topics include:
- Why Kids Act Out: The Five Ives
- The Five Needs that Drive Behavior
- Emotional Regulation: Helping Kids Manage Big Feelings
- Behavior-Supportive Classroom Space Design
- Communication That Disarms: Handling Defiance & Noncompliance
- Stopping Dangerous Behaviors: Climbing, Jumping, & Unsafe Actions
- Addressing Aggression: When Children Hit, Kick, or Hurt Others
- Teacher & Staff Well-Being: Preventing Burnout in High-Need Classrooms
Professional-Tier: Monthly Q&A Coaching Sessions
Take your behavior support strategies to the next level with our Professional-Tier Membership. In addition to full access to our training curriculum, you'll receive exclusive monthly Q&A sessions designed to provide targeted, real-world solutions to your most pressing behavior challenges.
You will receive:
Personalized Support: Submit your toughest behavior scenarios, and our experts will provide practical, research-backed guidance tailored to your needs.
On-Demand Learning: Each session is recorded and added to our membership portal, so you can listen in around your schedule.
Continuous Growth: As a Professional-Tier Member, you'll retain access to all past Q&A recordings for as long as you’re a member—building a powerful library of behavior solutions over time.
Premium-Tier Supports: Exclusive Expert Access
For professionals who want direct access to expert guidance and a supportive community, our Premium-Tier Membership offers everything in the Professional Tier—plus an exclusive private online community where you can connect, ask questions, and get real-time support.
Exclusive Private Online Community: Gain direct access to our experts and fellow educators in a dedicated online space, where you can ask questions, share challenges, and receive ongoing support between Q&A sessions.
Real-Time Expert Insights: Get faster responses and deeper discussions on behavior challenges—so you’re never left wondering what to do next.
A Support Network That Grows With You: Connect with like-minded professionals, share experiences, and build a powerful support system to help you navigate even the toughest behavior challenges.
Our Straightforward Pricing Guide:
At every level Behavior Breakthrough has powerful supports. Note that organizations can pay by check through our invoicing system, and that we offer a 5% discount for annual memberships paid in full, regardless of payment method. To connect with our billing team, send an email to billing@fiveives.com. Click here for our invoice request form.
All payment plans require a $97 account setup fee, which is waived for our annual members. This keeps the monthly cost low while ensuring you personalized care during account registration. Each license is for up to 20 staff. Large programs can contact us for custom pricing.
FOUNDATIONS
$197
Per Month
- Full Access to Training Curriculum
- Downloadable Tools & Resources
- Certificate of Completion for Staff (Validate Training Completion)
- Self-Paced and Available On-Demand
PROFESSIONAL
$497
Per Month
- Full Access to Training Curriculum
- Downloadable Tools & Resources
- Certificate of Completion for Staff (Validate Training Completion)
- Self-Paced and Available On-Demand
- Monthly Q&A Sessions with Our Experts
- Access to All Recorded Q&A Sessions (Growing Library of Expert Solutions)
- Targeted Behavior Supports
PREMIUM (Recommended)
$997
Per Month
- Full Access to Training Curriculum
- Downloadable Tools & Resources
- Certificate of Completion for Staff (Validate Training Completion)
- Self-Paced and Available On-Demand
- Monthly Q&A Sessions with Our Experts
- Access to All Recorded Q&A Sessions (Growing Library of Expert Solutions)
- Targeted Behavior Supports
- Exclusive Online Community
- Direct Access to Trained Behavior and Trauma Experts
- Ongoing Behavior Guidance Throughout the Month
- Collaborative Problem-Solving
Powerful, Game-Changing Care in Simple, Easy Steps
Our goal is to equip you with the tools and strategies to transform your program from reactive to resilient—moving beyond survival mode into a space where staff feel supported, children thrive, and peace becomes the norm. With a focus on practical, trauma-sensitive solutions, we help you build sustainable systems that reduce stress, improve retention, and create a healthier environment for everyone. Hear from some of our former trainees who have experienced this transformation firsthand:
"Brilliant. I just don’t see this being taught anywhere."
"I appreciated the content of this training tremendously. It really got me thinking about things in a different way."
"This training is so thought-provoking! Thank you for offering it."
"This was so valuable! Looking forward to next month!"
BEHAVIOR BREAKTHROUGH
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- Practical strategies, tools, and resources for getting your program out of survival mode and into a place of healing and calm
- Implementation support guides that give space for digesting and processing the material
- Ongoing access to experts throughout programming in our professional and premium-tiered models.
Still thinking?
That's okay. In crisis mode, it can be hard to make big decisions.
But picture what life will be like next year if you don't make a change, if things stay the way they are.
Children carrying the unimaginable weight of trauma will still come in. Staff will still be walking into difficult situations every day. You will still have staffing problems. And the mental health crisis isn't going away anytime soon, so hoping things get better isn't going to work.
You need a solution that can meet you in the crisis and not be just one more thing. And you need experts who get it. That's us.
Don't just take our word for it--hear from a client who can't stop raving about working with Five Ives:
Have Questions?
Let's Jump on a No-Pressure Demo Call
We know you hate getting on the phone with companies because the sales pitches are tiring. Heck, we hate most sales calls, too! But at Five Ives, we are different.
We are here to make your life easier and we want to hear how things are going for you.
We promise, no high-pressure tactics or boring sales pitches. We partner exclusively with organizations where we can make a meaningful impact.
With one call, let's see if it is the right fit for you.
Let's set up a time to chat to help your department get out of survival mode and into a more peaceful, healthy situation.
Meet the Team
Hey, I'm Lauren!
As an educator who knows what it is like to have to give yourself a pep talk to force yourself to walk into the building every day, I know what it feels like to be stressed out, overwhelmed, and frustrated when serving people.
Out of desperation and a deep love for the kids I served, I began studying neurobiology and nutrition and learned how trauma impacts the brain and body. I began implementing what I was learning in my own classroom and saw the difference it made for my students!
Word began spreading with other educators about the work that I do--this led me to start coaching teachers, parents, and children how to heal. I have since helped thousands of people who help people to understand the impacts of trauma and how we can enter into caring professions without burning out.
Hey there! I'm Jessica!
I have spent the last decade serving people who have experienced trauma in various capacities: first as a teacher, then foster/adoptive parent, nonprofit volunteer, business owner, and nonprofit leader.
This topic is so personal to me, as I have walked alongside people professionally and personally who have been through really hard things. I spent thousands of hours reading and researching trauma-focused care culminating in a PhD in STEM Education with a dissertation on trauma-informed education and the preschool-to-prison pipeline.
I started training people in how to care for people well and have since helped thousands of people who help people all over the world.
It is my personal mission to make the world a more compassionate place through helping people help people!
IT'S THE PERFECT MATCH!
When we met and started talking about the work we do, we realized that we both had similar thoughts about how to do this better.
We had been working hard with individuals for a long time, trying to train people who were working within systems that were broken.
This was leading to a lot of spinning wheels and frustration--people knew they needed to change their individual practices, but were frustrated by the difficult systems around them.
That's where Five Ives began: with a desire to make change at a systemic level within organizations who help people.
To help people who help people, the organization needs to be healthy and have practices in place that consider the trauma of those they serve.
BUT WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY DO?
Blah blah blah, trauma-informed care. That's how a lot of people hear what people say they do, and we get your hesitation. A lot of people use the right words, but what makes us different is that not only do we have the education and experience to back up the claims that we are experts in trauma care, but we are transparent about how we show up and serve people. Nothing fuzzy or woo-woo around here--we are all about data driven, research-backed practices and practical help that make a difference.
Regulation Strategies
We bring practical help for emotional and behavioral regulation in the classroom to address ongoing behaviors and create a safe and calm classroom.
Trauma Care
We help you show up for the children who have experienced more serious personal challenges that impact their learning and behavior.
Staff Support
We show up for your staff by helping them navigate their own secondary trauma from caring for children who have experienced hard things.
Unpacking Barriers
PAYMENT OPTIONS
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