Walla Walla Public Schools is teaming up with a local nonprofit to ensure every employee in the district better understands childhood trauma and how it affects students.
The all-employee training slated to take place over a two-year time span is a first such effort for the district and for Teri Barila, co-founder and head of Community Resilience Initiative. The organization strives to reduce childhood trauma and help build resilience through educational, health and other community systems.
To teach every certified and classified employee in a school district about the brain science around bad childhood experiences is an opportunity to create a foundational understanding in that holds promise of far-reaching and long-lasting effect, Barila said.
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Photo: All Walla Walla School District personnel, from bus drivers and teachers to cafeteria workers, will undergo training to recognize adverse childhood experience and help them build resilience to trauma. By the end of 2018, the school district expects all employees will have completed the first phase of training. U-B file photo
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