This article features the work of ACEsConnection members Dr. Mark Brown, Jim Sporleder, and Teri Barila.
"About a decade ago, Washington State embarked on an early social experiment to educate people about the impacts of stress on children. The results are starting to show....
"One day in the spring of 2010, Sporleder made a three-hour trek north to Spokane to attend a workshop given by a molecular biologist. He was encouraged to make the trip by a community organizer affiliated with the Washington Family Policy Council, a state agency that had become unusually galvanized by a recent body of research. Sporleder was one of many educators, social workers, law enforcement officers, and other community leaders who were being sent to similar conferences around Washington with state dollars, all as part of a large-scale campaign to educate people about the impacts of trauma and stress on children....
"WHEN I ASKED THE staff at Lincoln about the secret of their success, I was frequently met with the warning “There is no list,” and the frustratingly vague phrase “It’s about a paradigm shift.” Teachers at Lincoln insisted that other schools could use their methods..."
http://www.psmag.com/health/what-does-it-take-for-traumatized-kids-to-thrive-56488/
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