Journalists across the nation have noticed the good that Trauma Smart can bring to their communities.
Trauma Smart (TS) is an early education/mental health partnership designed for schools. The goals of TS are to reduce the stress of chronic trauma, support children’s social and cognitive development, and develop an integrated, trauma-informed culture for young children, parents, and staff. TS includes training, classroom consultation, intensive evidence-based clinical treatment, and peer mentoring of teachers.
An avant-garde program with Kansas City roots has taken up ground with Ozark Action to provide support for children surviving traumatic experiences.
With effective laws already on the books to address school safety, it’s going to take creative solutions to remedy the onslaught of recent threats of school violence.
Expanding access to mental health services could be a start.
Ozark Action Head Start is collaborating with Crittenton Children’s Center in Kansas City to bring the innovative Trauma Smart model to the six county area.
Children in Head Start have a higher exposure rate to trauma than other children.
Through its partnership with Trauma Smart, MCA and OLHSA have provided onsite training and coaching support regularly throughout
the year.
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Following a trend that state officials are calling the needed wave of future care, Starfish will be the first agency in Michigan to adopt Trauma Smart, a comprehensive training program that allows teachers and therapists to help children heal from any number of traumatic experiences that could include being assaulted, seeing a family member killed, or being abused or neglected — all things that negatively affect children’s ability to learn or become emotionally strong. And it now operates the largest infant mental health program in the country.
Some 40,000 New York City children will benefit from Trauma Smart program, a new initiative that will be administered by the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) to help parents, child care providers and teachers to support children who experience adverse situations.
Unos 40,000 niños neoyorquinos serán beneficiados del programa Trauma Smart, una nueva iniciativa que será administrada por la Administración de Servicios Infantiles (ACS) para ayudar a los padres, proveedores de cuidado infantil y maestros a apoyar a los niños que experimentan situaciones de adversidad.