Welcome!
Here's some helpful resource links:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ed...matized-kids/490214/
- General overview
- Excellent award winning documentaries on trauma! Paper Tigers (personal element) & Resilience (includes more data reinforcement)
https://www.nhvrc.org/yearbook...e-visiting-yearbook/
- Provides state by state data represented w infographics (more engaging) of impact of home visits as part of trauma informed strategy.
- Extremely helpful interactive resource to help children and adults understand the neurological limitations presented by trauma. I use this with youth I mentor to help them visualize and understand what we're trying to accomplish together and why.
https://www.understood.org/en/...lds-eyes/personalize
- Extremely helpful interactive resource to help adults understand what it's like to try to navigate with neurological/emotional/mental limitations presented by trauma. Note: Research increasingly associates ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, etc. with trauma and is beginning to establish trauma as the root cause.
Another idea would be to have every student and parent simply provide you with an ACE score # without having to share to which questions they answered "Yes". This is how Dr. Burke Harris' clinic does their initial intake I believe. Regardless, it's a "safer" way for children and adults to respond.
Best to you!