When young children go through long periods of stress and trauma, the effects go deeper than just their emotional wellbeing; the experiences have a lasting effect on how their brains develop, according to research.
This year, a group of Albemarle County schools and social services officials, researchers and criminal justice professionals has convened to study how local schools and governments can respond to and mitigate the effect of childhood trauma.
Convened by Gloria Peña Rockhold, community programs manager for Albemarle County Public Schools, the advisory group has so far met twice.
“This conversation is more of a global conversation, not just school bound,” Rockhold said. “It does affect all aspects of the community, and we all need to be on the same page in order for all of us to be able to move forward with initiatives that will actually cause change to happen.”
[For more of this story, written by Aaron Richardson, go to http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/...dy-childhood-trauma/]
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