I respect and appreciate all of your questions and perspectives. What I am grateful about Paper Tigers, is that Jamie Redford used Lincoln High School as a lens to bring awareness for the greater good for others.
Paper Tigers focuses on five students, Lincoln High School focused on 200 students. A trauma-informed model is a paradigm shift, a new approach that impacts the culture of the school or agency. I think we overlook the larger message if we begin to make assumptions on what we don't know.
Paper Tigers is a tool from my perspective. Use it as the tool to start the conversation in your own community. How can you collaborate together to bring trauma-informed practices to your schools and other community entities?
A caring adult relationship is a game changer. It models resilience, it loves unconditionally, and it values every student/client (LGBTQ) in a manner that each of us deserves to be treated. Therefore, you create a culture of acceptance, and the injustice and barriers that we see in traditional systems, are removed.
ACE's are real and it takes a trauma-informed model to create the culture in which the student's/client's wounds can become stepping stones to their growth... Moving from hopelessness to HOPE.
Blessings, Jim