School either has started or will start very soon for many children this coming week. It is incredibly challenging for our teachers to help students figure out how to calm themselves after a busy summer and more so after a life that has a trauma history. Those students tend to be dysregulated and unable to […]
Systems Readiness for Trauma-informed Care
I have been extremely pleased to hear and see that so many of our systems have started thinking globally about trauma-informed care. Our federal government has issued a resolution to declare that government staff need to be trauma-informed. Our schools are moving towards a trauma-informed training agenda in many states, including our state of Pennsylvania. […]
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Teachers
One powerful reality in our schools is that teachers face the difficulties of dealing with students that have a trauma narrative. About 50% of children have some kind of trauma in their lives and it has a significant impact on teachers every day. In this case it has been labelled secondary traumatic stress and it […]
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