When students at Mercer County Intermediate School returned to in-person learning during the 2021-2022 school year, school counselor Amy Riley noticed heightened anxiety among the third through fifth ...

Trauma-informed approaches have become increasingly prominent in education policy and guidance, although the term is not always explicitly used. Trauma-informed practice recognizes that trauma—an ...

Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. For the final research assignment, I choose to explore the ...

As part of our Special Series "Addressing Youth Mental Health," Kate Endries, LMSW, National Director of Trauma-Informed Practice at Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Susan Haspel, State Director of ...

All young people have experienced loss over the past two years—loss of physical access to school, to teachers and friends, to school activities and playtime. And many have lost loved ones to COVID-19 ...

The School of Social Work’s Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (ITTIC) has partnered with University Police (UP) on an education and training program that seeks to integrate trauma-informed ...

Trauma-informed teaching cannot be simplified to cookie-cutter practices. Take this example: a teacher worked with a student to develop a silent signal that he could use when he needed extra breaks ...

Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey have published a book of their conversations about trauma and healing titled What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing. Oprah has spoken to ...

What does it mean for a hospital to offer "trauma-informed care?" How about a hairdresser? Or even a paint color consultant? Suddenly, this term is everywhere, but it's rarely explained. Behind the ...

Patricia Benitez Hemans is a former secondary educator who is currently completing a Ph.D. in education studies at the University of California, San Diego. Since trauma is so prevalent and has so many ...

All organizations have a responsibility to foster psychologically safe workplaces, which includes the responsibility of HR and other leaders to be trauma-informed and promote employee access to trauma ...

Samrawit Silva looks up at Concord Deputy Chief John Thomas as the Black Lives Matters demonstrators chant â Take a Kneeâ as the crowd stopped at the Concord police station on Saturday, June 6, 2020.