Victoria Blakeney is with the new state Office of Safe and Respectful Learning Environments, and was one of more than a dozen presenters. She says that Nevada kids are experiencing trauma at higher rates than the national average.
“Our data shows that kids, more than half, are coming from at least one ACE.”
By that, she means adverse childhood experience. According to Blakeney’s research, more than 10 percent of kids in Nevada report not having enough food to eat, nearly 10 percent of high school students have attempted suicide, and nine percent of kids statewide have been physically forced to have sex against their will.
“If we could understand the preponderance of what our kids go through, we would stop teaching to the kid who didn’t go through that,” Blakeney says.
[For more of this story, written by Noah Glick, go to http://kunr.org/post/nevada-ed...dent-trauma#stream/0]
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