Jane Stevens, founder and editor of ACEsTooHigh and ACEsConnections, testified at this hearing. She is quoted in the following story in Neon Tommy, a digital news site of USC Annenberg.
Assembly Member and Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Roger Dickinson hosted a hearing Friday at the Los Angeles Public Library on the subject of trauma informed care of young people.
“By isolating and punishing them we are simply failing to address the root cause of the behavior and we’re doing less than our best to ensure a young person’s success in school,” said Dickinson.
Joining Dickinson was the President and CEO of health foundation California Endowment, Robert Ross who noted that trauma is the top indicator of misbehavior in class and obesity and that young people living in low income communities seem to suffer stronger effects of trauma than those living in higher income communities…………
Founder and Editor of ACEs Too High and ACEs Connection, Jane Stevens talked about a breakthrough in dealing with ACEs. In 15 Connecticut cities, revolutionary home visiting service, Child First, uses a trauma informed evidence based approach to help kids who have behavioral problems. They also help their parents with basic needs; their own trauma and helping them learn how to bond deeply with their children.
Stevens made it clear that kids having behavior issues is not a disorder, they are symptoms that require a team-effort to combat.
“There’s a lot that we can do to change the course of young people’s lives by giving them the opportunity to succeed. It’s a very dynamic period and I think over time, trauma informed care will be a national issue,” concluded Dickinson
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/04/california-assemblyman-hosts-hearing-youth-trauma-care
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