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New York State Trauma-Informed Network

The goal of New York State Truma-Informed Network is to support trauma responsive practices across the state with improved connection and access to quality resources. Their site offers a free online assessment tool to determine where your organization may havethe greatest opportunity for growth.

The National Center for Trauma Informed Care

Most individuals seeking public behavioral health services and many other public services, such as homeless and domestic violence services, have histories of physical and sexual abuse and other types of trauma-inducing experiences. These experiences often lead to mental health and co-occurring disorders such as chronic health conditions, substance abuse, eating disorders, and HIV/AIDS, as well as contact with the criminal justice system.

How to Manage Trauma

Trauma occurs when a person is overwhelmed by events or circumstances and responds with intense fear, horror, and helplessness. Extreme stress overwhelms the person’s capacity to cope. There is a direct correlation between trauma and physical health conditions such as diabetes, COPD, heart disease, cancer, and high blood pressure.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network was established to improve access to care, treatment, and services for traumatized children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events. This section of NCTSN.org provides information about the Network itself.

Articles About Trauma Informed Schools

Trauma-Sensitive Schools Are Better Schools
by Jane Ellen Stevens

The first time that principal Jim Sporleder tried the New Approach to Student Discipline at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, he was blown away. Because it worked. In fact, it worked so well that he never went back to the Old Approach to Student Discipline. This is how it went down:

A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln -- and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country -- is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly:
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Trauma-Sensitive Schools Are Better Schools, Part Two
by Jane Ellen Stevens

Take a short walk on the dark side of our public education system, and you learn some disturbing lessons about school punishment.

First. U.S. schools suspend millions of kids -- 3,328,750, to be exact. Since the 1970s, says a National Education Policy Center report published in October 2011, the suspension rate's nearly doubled for white kids, to nearly 6 percent. It's more than doubled for Hispanics to 7 percent, and to a stunning 15 percent for blacks. For Native Americans, it's almost tripled, from 3 percent to 8 percent.
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Managing Your High School Classroom with Compassion
by Laura Lee

High school teacher Grace Dearborn says students don't all respond to consequences in the same way, so teachers need a full toolbox of options.

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Videos About Trauma-Informed Schools

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Why All Schools Should Be Trauma-Informed - Ted Talk

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