An expert on the way trauma at home also hurts children in the classroom encouraged Vermont educators to build a coordinated program to help affected students.
Lynn Dolce spoke recently about the growing problem of “toxic stress” before more than 250 school superintendents, special education directors, and state employees who work in education and health.
A group of children in Montpelier. File photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger
“This is not a mental health issue, this is a public health issue,” said Dolce, director of foster care mental health at the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Dolce urged school leaders at the spring conference of the Vermont Superintendents Association and Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators to consider building a “trauma informed educational system” that involves teachers, school staff and the community.
[For more of this story, written by Tiffany Danitz Pache, go to http://vtdigger.org/2016/05/24...yond-educators-told/]
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