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Parkway trains employees on trauma-informed care
10/5/2017 -- Parkway has proactively started training leaders, teachers and staff on how to provide trauma-informed care for our students.
Trauma-informed means that educators consider a student's past and their possible experiences with traumatic events when building relationships, encouraging positive behavior and gathering resources to assist in students' success. A trauma-informed approach is one that involves understanding and responding to the symptoms of chronic interpersonal trauma and traumatic stress.
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has developed a new website that outlines the Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative at motraumaschools.com.
A trauma-informed school is one that:
- realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery,
- recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in students, teachers and staff,
- responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into its policies, procedures and practices; and seeks to actively resist re-traumatization.