Every person deserves to feel safe enough to become who they were created to be.
ROOTS Alaska strengthens families and communities through connection, education, and prevention. We translate relationship and brain science into practical tools that build safety, trust, emotional regulation, healthy communication, and stronger relationships.
How ROOTS Serves
Connection-based education
Parent & Family Education
Practical education grounded in TBRI® principles and HALO Project programs, including Making Sense of Your Worth and Parenting for Positive Self-Worth. Families learn to understand behavior, build felt safety, strengthen connection, and support healthy self-worth.
Family Communication Training
Family Support Workforce Development
TBRI® training and relationship-centered workshops equip professionals with practical tools for understanding behavior, promoting felt safety, supporting regulation, and building trusting relationships with children and families.
Relationship-centered professional training
Community Education & Prevention
Education rooted in connection, protective factors, and healthy self-worth helps communities respond with curiosity, strengthen relationships, and address challenges before they become crises.
Meet the Founder
Cassie Eads is the founder of ROOTS Alaska, a TBRI® Practitioner, HALO Project trained facilitator, Peer Support Professional, speaker, educator, and Rural Human Services student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She combines professional training with lived experience to help people understand what may be happening beneath behavior and build safer, stronger relationships.
Cassie Eads, founder of ROOTS Alaska
Designed Around Your Community
ROOTS programs can be offered to parent groups, schools, nonprofits, family-serving organizations, professional teams, and community partners. Format, group size, delivery setting, and areas of focus are discussed based on the needs of each organization and the requirements of the selected curriculum.
Tell us who you serve and what you hope to strengthen. We will help identify the program or training approach that best fits your goals.
The ROOTS Way
Every person deserves to feel safe enough to become who they were created to be. We believe awareness creates choice, curiosity comes before judgment, and connection makes growth possible.
Human Connection Still Matters
Technology continues to reshape how we learn, communicate, and work. ROOTS believes these tools should expand access and support people without replacing human responsibility, judgment, or care.
Because no technology can replace the experience of being genuinely known, valued, and connected to another human being.