Check out this latest Florida legislation that incorporates trauma-informed language. This new bill was approved earlier this week by a Florida House panel aimed at tightening sweeping reforms that lawmakers placed into Florida’s child-welfare system last year.
See: http://health.wusf.usf.edu/pos...d-protection-reforms for details. And, here’s an excerpt from the article in this Health News Florida link.
. . . the bill spells out that child protective services must be "trauma informed" --- that is, based on the idea that children can be rehabilitated by addressing the painful experiences they’ve endured, such as family violence or addicted parents.
"Untreated child trauma is a root cause of many of the most pressing problems that communities face, including poverty, crime, low academic achievement, addiction, mental health problems and poor health outcomes," noted the staff analysis of the bill.
The bill also specifies that community-based care organizations, which deliver most services to children and families in the state system, will "prioritize the use of services that are evidence-based and trauma-informed."