Each year we have a very special tradition and celebration at Lakeside. We come together as a leadership team, Directors, and Board members to review our impact and results from the past year. It is a day of reflection which features all of our statistics and many incredible stories. This year was exemplary in our […]

This is a weekend where we as a country celebrate Labor Day. For many of us it is the time where we end our summer and begin the school year. It feels like some kind of a new beginning when our students return to school as they anticipate another school year. We also must acknowledge […]

It is hard to believe that we are already in mid-August. It won’t be long until school starts again and we will begin another new school year in our country and at Lakeside. In our public schools we have been experiencing a shortage of staff and some schools that will not begin with a full […]

Lakeside Global Institute has been a leader in trauma education for 12+ years. We have had the opportunity to provide therapeutic education to thousands of professionals who are working with trauma-impacted individuals throughout the state of Pennsylvania and beyond. We offer a full trauma-competent certification for professionals which involves three intensive courses. In addition to […]

Each year in September the Lakeside Board of Directors and our Program Directors meet to review the results of the past year. This year has been a momentous year in that we managed the COVID-19 pandemic in full force. It created new challenges for our staff and students in how we taught, provided counseling, delivered […]

Each year Lakeside hires and orients new staff to our mission and work with students who have struggled to maintain their status in their school.  All in all, we serve approximately 3,500 students per year in 45 different school districts located in seven Pennsylvania counties. These students have been identified as in need of counseling, […]

This is a season of fun celebrations. I attended one of the hundreds of high school graduation parties just today. It is one of those benchmark achievements by our teenagers that is an exciting time in their lives. They have finished 12 or more school years of work and effort and now can think about […]

For several decades, Dr. Sandra Bloom has been an international writer, speaker and expert in the field of trauma. She has had significant influence throughout the world in trauma-informed care and in particular has had a major impact on hundreds of organizations in helping them become trauma-informed. Her extensive research and her Sanctuary series of […]

This past weekend, as is our practice, Lakeside’s Board of Directors and Leadership gathered for our Annual Meeting. It is a meeting where we conduct a “year-in-review” and reflect together on all that occurred in the lives of those in our sphere of care through our many programs. This year was a year of all […]

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 […]