Summit: Oklahoma’s youngest, most vulnerable children suffer more trauma than those in any other state in the nation [tulsaworld.com]

State leaders in education, criminal justice and health came together Tuesday to begin to confront an alarming, new statistic: Oklahoma’s youngest, most vulnerable children suffer more trauma than those in any other state in the nation.

A summit titled, “It Starts Here: Trauma-Informed Instruction,” brought thousands of educators from across the state to hear from national experts on childhood trauma and what brain science reveals about what teachers can do to help students both learn more effectively and heal.

State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister said old-fashioned, “authoritarian” approaches to behavior issues are totally ineffective in reaching today’s school-age population because it includes hundreds of thousands of children struggling with the effects of abuse, neglect, broken homes and the nation’s leading rate of incarcerated parents.

[For more on this story by Andrea Ege, go to https://www.tulsaworld.com/hom...7b-9a16d7f6ca8e.html]

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“Until we can calm them down and return them to a state of thinking, there is nothing we can do with them,” Graner said. “Kids who have been through a lot of (adverse childhood experiences) are sensitized to stress, so they immediately go from a calm state to fear or stress. So, the more sensitized they are to stress, the more we have to dose safety to get them to a place where they can learn and to connect.”

Graner praised the new commitment by Oklahoma’s state leaders to push trauma-informed approaches down through the systems of education, criminal justice and health, but he also challenged them.

Summit: Oklahoma’s youngest, most vulnerable children suffer more trauma than those in any other state in the nation [tulsaworld.com]

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