For the kids the other programs quietly aren't built for.
Most family programs are built for the average classroom. We built ours for the families navigating the hardest behavior: the meltdowns, the aggression, the ADHD, autism, ODD, sensory differences, and trauma histories that general curricula were never designed to reach.
If your district is carrying families who need more than another newsletter, let's talk. We have helped over 3,400 of these families build calmer homes, and we partner with schools and districts to bring it to the families you serve.
Founder, Calm the Chaos. Former inner-city teacher.
You already know which families we mean.
We surveyed 505 teachers, from Pre-K through 12th grade, with one question: when it comes to challenging behavior, what is your biggest struggle? Here is what they told us, in their own words.
"Students not being able to self-regulate, so they throw these huge, explosive tantrums. They start throwing things or yell uncontrollably or both. Please. Help."
"A child having a major meltdown and not being able to figure out what causes them and why they react to something so extremely."
"Having the time to work on different challenges with different children when there are multiple needs in the classroom, and still the rest of the class to teach too."
"Getting parents on board with cohesive, comprehensive strategies. Collaborating as a team shows the student we all have the same goals for their success."
A complete roadmap for the families behind the behavior.
Calm the Chaos 4.0 is our flagship framework. Your families work through a five-stage roadmap that moves them from surviving the hardest moments to running calm, connected days. Every stage includes video lessons, audio, worksheets, and templates.
Ride the Storm
Get through the intense meltdown in the moment, without making it worse.
5-Minute Energy
Help the parent regulate first, so they can be the calm in the room.
In the Moment
Real-time response strategies for the behavior as it happens.
Ahead of the Moment
Spot the patterns and triggers, and get ahead of the next storm.
Family Success
Build the sustainable daily routines that hold once the crisis passes.
Live support
Three months of live coaching, a private community, and a full library of behavior-specific plans.
- Lifetime access to the full Calm the Chaos 4.0 curriculum
- Three months of live coaching calls and community support
- Three months of our behavior-specific plan library
- Two 1:1 calls per family: a personalized jumpstart and a custom plan call
- Spanish subtitles, transcripts, and live translated captions
- An admin dashboard to assign and manage seats in batches
General programs go wide. We go where it's hardest.
- Built for the average family and the average classroom
- Focus on attendance, reading, and general involvement
- Treat intense behavior as the rare exception
- Hand families tips, not a roadmap for a child in crisis
- Built specifically for ADHD, autism, ODD, sensory, and trauma
- Starts with the meltdown, the aggression, the hardest moment
- Treats intense behavior as the whole point, not the footnote
- Gives families a five-stage roadmap they actually follow
"We are all better educators and parents today because of your compassionate words over the past years." Educator and parent, Calm the Chaos community
Built to fit the funding you already have.
Districts most often fund Calm the Chaos through family-engagement and mental-health dollars. We provide the invoicing and documentation your grant requires, including baseline and end-of-program assessment data for your reporting.
Title I
The parent and family engagement set-aside is a natural fit for a family-facing behavior program.
Title IV & mental health
Student support and safer-school funds that target wellbeing and behavior.
IDEA / special education
For the families of students on IEPs and behavior plans.
Local grants
We have partnered with districts running grant-funded family cohorts, and we shape the paperwork to match.
She started in your buildings.
Dayna Abraham is a former inner-city school teacher who understands the families that under-resourced communities are trying to reach. Her years in the classroom, and her own journey raising a child with ADHD, autism, and sensory processing differences, shaped the entire Calm the Chaos framework.
She is the author of Calm the Chaos, published by Hachette, and her work has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and in Parents Magazine. When you partner with us, you and Dayna are on the same side of the table, working toward the same kids.
- Districts serving families of students with intense behavior
- Pre-K through 12th grade
- Families of students on IEPs and behavior plans
- Grant-funded family and parent engagement initiatives
- Communities where Spanish-language support matters
Let's talk about the families you're carrying.
Book a 60-minute call with Dayna and Jason. We'll walk through the program, how it maps to your funding, and what a cohort would look like for your district. No cost, no obligation.