Helping Children Grow Rooted in Love
Helping churches, educators, and families support children through faith, connection, and emotional wellness.
Meet Kelly
Kelly Jones is a Registered Nurse, educator, mental health program director, and the founder of Rooted Hearts Initiative.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Nursing Education and has spent years working with children, families, older adults, churches, and community organizations - helping people better understand emotional wellness, trauma, resilience, and the importance of safe connection.
But beyond her professional background, Kelly is also a wife and mom to two little girls living in rural Minnesota. Much of the heart behind Rooted Hearts was shaped not only through her work in mental health, but also through everyday moments of motherhood - helping children navigate big feelings, fears, change, grief, confidence, and connection.
Kelly created Rooted Hearts Initiative to bring together faith and emotional wellness in simple, practical ways that feel approachable for real families, churches, schools, and communities.
Through stories, trainings, curriculums, and speaking, her mission is to help children grow up knowing they are safe, deeply loved, and never alone.
The Real Beau
Bo was inspired by our real black lab, Beau.
Beau had a gentle, calming presence and a special way of making people feel safe - especially children. He stayed close during hard moments, brought comfort without needing words, and reminded us how powerful quiet connection can be.
As I began creating stories to help children understand big feelings, it felt natural to create a character like Bo: a safe, steady presence children could trust as they navigate emotions, relationships, faith, and growing up.
Research consistently shows that children learn and regulate best through safe, connected relationships. In the stories, Bo helps model that safe connection while reminding children that they are deeply loved and never alone.
Discover Your Rooted Response Style
A faith-based emotional wellness assessment designed to help individuals better understand how they respond to stress, relationships, conflict, emotions, and connection.
Using the four Rooted Response styles — Anchor, Guide, Protector, and Reflector — this experience helps people recognize both healthy and unhealthy patterns while building greater self-awareness and emotional resilience.
Perfect for:
individuals
couples
churches
leadership teams
educators
counseling settings
personal growth
Participants receive:
✔ Personalized response style results
✔ Healthy vs. unhealthy pattern insights
✔ Relationship and communication awareness
✔ Nervous system & emotional wellness education
✔ Faith-centered reflection tools
Rooted Responses Assessment — $25
✨ Workshop and group licensing options coming soon.
Find your results here: https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/6a00f45d29facc34c3d2ba40
60 Faith-Based Social-Emotional Lesson Plans for Young Learners
A heart-centered social-emotional learning curriculum designed to help children understand emotions, build confidence, strengthen relationships, and grow in faith through engaging stories, hands-on activities, movement, discussion, prayer, and connection.
This flexible 12-week curriculum includes 60 ready-to-use lesson plans covering themes such as nervousness, anger, sadness, joy, jealousy, gratitude, loneliness, disappointment, bravery, and emotional resilience.
Created for:
churches
daycares
homeschool families
classrooms
counseling settings
children’s groups
Includes:
✔ 60 total SEL lesson plans
✔ Daily activities & discussion prompts
✔ Faith-based emotional wellness themes
✔ Story-based learning with Bo & The Big Feelings
✔ Coloring sheets & printable resources
✔ Flexible, easy-to-use format for busy educators
Rooted Hearts 12-Week Curriculum — $150
Helping children grow emotionally safe, connected, resilient, and rooted in love.
Printable Coloring Pack
A collection of faith-based and emotion-focused coloring sheets designed to help children explore big feelings, kindness, bravery, connection, and emotional wellness in simple, engaging ways.
Perfect for:
churches
classrooms
homeschool families
counseling offices
quiet bags
parent resources
Includes:
✔ Emotion-themed coloring pages
✔ Faith-centered encouragement
✔ Kid-friendly designs
✔ Printable PDF download
Coloring Sheets Bundle — $12
Church Trainings
Faith-based trainings that help churches better support children, families, emotional wellness, trauma-informed care, and emotionally safe ministry environments. Designed for pastors, children’s ministry teams, volunteers, and church leaders.
Daycare Trainings
Trauma-informed and faith-based trainings that help daycare providers and early childhood educators better understand children’s emotions, behavior, nervous systems, and emotional development while creating calmer, more connected classroom environments.
Conference Speaking
Engaging faith-based speaking on emotional wellness, child development, trauma-informed care, leadership, resilience, and building emotionally safe communities for children and families.
Our first children’s book!
Bo & The Big Feelings: Nervous
Coming Soon 💛
The very first book in the Bo & The Big Feelings series is currently in development!
This faith-based children’s story follows Maggie and Bo as they navigate nervous feelings, new experiences, bravery, and emotional growth through gentle storytelling and safe connection.
In the story, Bo helps Maggie learn that God often places safe helpers in our lives — people, family members, teachers, friends, and comforting companions who remind us that we are loved, protected, and never alone. Through Bo’s steady presence, Maggie begins to understand that Jesus cares about her big feelings and walks beside her even when she feels nervous or unsure.
Inspired by a real black lab named Beau, Bo was created to model the calming presence of a safe and trusted companion while helping children build emotional awareness, resilience, faith, and courage.
We are currently working on illustrations and bringing the story to life — and we cannot wait to share it with you.
✨ Stay tuned for updates, sneak peeks, coloring sheets, and preorder information coming soon!
Helping Children Grow Rooted in Love
Helping Children Grow Rooted in Love
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