By RICK GANLEY & MARY MCINTYRE • MAY 7, 2020, on NHPR.org
Before the coronavirus pandemic, an alternative school in Rochester was finding new ways to help its students cope with difficult situations.
Bud Carlson Academy is on its way to becoming the first trauma-skilled school in the state.
Principal Bryan Kelliher says most of the students enrolled there didn’t succeed in a typical high school environment, and many have experienced childhood trauma.
“The school now functions for those high anxiety kids,” Kelliher said. “It functions for the students who are at-risk because of home life and moving or homelessness. And I think it functions for some of the students for whom motivation in a big classroom is really difficult.”
Every single faculty member has undergone some kind of trauma-informed training. So that any adult a student comes into contact with at school has at least a base-level understanding of what they might be going through.
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