This report from the Juvenile Law Center makes it clear that, in addition to providing services that are "trauma-informed," we need to be mindful of how we use our knowledge of a child's trauma to help and not to hurt. For example, we should not allow it to exacerbate racial and ethnic disparities that may stem from perceptions about who is capable of overcoming trauma, nor allow it to lower our expectations of a child's potential for success.
Please share thoughts, names of organizations or individuals with whom we should speak and resources and research that will help to shed light on our questions. We would love to hear from people from a wide range of settings – juvenile justice, child welfare, education, child care, health care and more – and to think about how lessons learned in one setting could be applied to another.
[For more of this story, written by Jennifer M. Ng'andu, and to join the discussion go to http://forum.rwjf.org/a/ideafactory.do?mode=recent&discussionFilter=byids&discussionID=8163]
[To read the report go to http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2014/rwjf414703]
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