As we as a nation consider reopening hundreds of schools that have been online there will be some considerable challenges for educators. As a way to provide guidance, support and help to those schools Lakeside will host a free national symposium for schools with the perspective of being brain-based and trauma-informed in how we understand […]
Gov. Wolf’s Office: Building a Trauma-Informed Pennsylvania
We are so grateful that after years of working on this issue and providing training all over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that the following announcement has been made. The Office of Advocacy and Reform (OAR), established by Governor Tom Wolf’s 2019 executive order to protect Pennsylvania’s vulnerable populations, announced the launch of a volunteer think tank comprised […]
Are you Currently Experiencing Allostatic Load?
During these unprecedented times, most of us have been experiencing powerful emotions, often alternating between feelings of loss, anxiety, anger and frustration, being overwhelmed, and at times even apathetic. I know I find myself trying to pause in order to understand what is happening and then I realize that all these powerful emotions get in […]
