More than 200 educators, advocates and community members participated in a four-hour session Feb. 9 to learn what role trauma plays in the lives of Monroe County school students and how they can help students succeed.
Data and analysis from the most recent Monroe County Youth Risk Behavior Survey helped set the stage for the morning’s discussion. The local survey, completed 11 times since 1992 by students ages 13 and older, has typically measured youth risk behavior, which includes drug use, violence and sexual risk behaviors. For the first time, questions were included to assess the exposure to trauma such as abuse, neglect and witnessing violence, enabling the connection to be made between traumatic life events and risky behavior.
The latest survey found that 70 percent of students in Monroe County reported experiencing one or more traumatic events, with 28 percent indicating they had directly encountered three or more instances of trauma.
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