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Managing those difficult conversations with youth who are self-harming or suicidal can be a challenge. While there are many components needed to equip a caregiver to vulnerable youth who are suicidal or practice self-harm. This tool has a few simple prompts to guide conversations.
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Hammond’s neuroscience based Ready 4 Rigor Framework truly resonates with me as a launching point to overhaul our current Covid19 educational challenges. The Ready 4 Rigor Framework helps us understand how the utilization of CRT supports developing independent students who can “accelerate their capacity” and thereby decrease the achievement gap
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My heart is heavy….
Again injustice. Again blood shed. Again.
Piles of literature in journals with statistics that mount up to the heavens. Oppression has an impact on all of us. Our entire nation suffers when some are mistreated, neglected, violated. We know this… yet still, more more more of the same treatment.
Now what? We need the miracle of heart level changes.
Is one small step dealing with the tangled generational trauma that keeps giving us the same results? Violence.
Generational trauma is an emotional cancer that erodes our safety and keeps being passed down to our children who grow up learning about hatred. Our kids struggle to make sense of an illness. Then the same inequity and injustice perpetuates and rips apart our people. Like this week.
Lord help us! Our nation needs healing from the inside. Blood is on our hands. The bride needs a shower.
Only You can fix this mess. You can give us the courage to look inside. You can strengthen us. Only You have the answers we need collaboration to discover.
A glimmer of help amidst the gulf of darkness is a movement being birthed. Generational Trauma (GT) curriculum and the Unchained documentary to help us tackle some of the onion layers of wounds. Although we weep, we ask You to help us try.
We will see your greater works Lord.
A screenshot for Quest Movement where I recently attended training for Generational Trauma. This curriculum is developed in collaboration with the authors of Healing the Wounds of Trauma curriculum which has been used in 100s of countries for almost 20 years.
Quest Movement will be galvanizing to reorganize trainings and healing groups amidst changes to format required by covid19 restrictions. More to come soon…..
http://questmovement.org/generationaltrauma
90% of the World’s Students Need a New Trauma Informed Strategy
During this Covid-19 pandemic, more than 90% of the world’s students were displaced from attending school. Absolutely, mind boggling! I am more than grateful for the influx of free trauma informed care training online to support hurting students and their families. Details are below.
My Two Cents: We Will Need New Lenses
Perhaps even more critical than these last few weeks of school is preparation for start up in the fall. I do not believe in the “get back to normal” notion. We need to embrace a new trauma lens. It will be critical to prepare our educators, service providers and organizations for short and long term changes to our systems.
Retooling for School Students in the Fall… Hopefully Post Covid-19
For many months and years to come, our children will remember and respond in many ways to “The Great Covid-19 Shutdown of 2020”. Some resilient students with lots of support will seem to bounce back and perform well academically. The trick is… our students will not all bounce back. Many vulnerable kids are depressed and despondent during this lockdown. We have heard of the increase in drug use, self-harm and aggression to manage their pain. In addition, many successful students who smile and seem fine may be harboring their pain inside. All students deserve opportunities to process their emotions in order to promote long-term wellness.
Good News
The good news is we have learned it is possible to develop the emotional health of students. It is completely doable if schools and organizations prepare to put on a new lens: trauma informed care.
The free course provided by Starr Commonwealth is a good opportunity for a limited time when using the code TRAUMAINFORMED (all caps).
From their site:
“This course provides detailed information and concrete actions that answer not just the “why” but also the “how” to create the best classroom and school supports for traumatized students and the school professionals who serve them.”
The course covers many topics including:
resilience
core values and beliefs exploration
trauma’s impact on children
fostering connections
social and emotional skills
safety
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Enjoy!!
Heloise J. Ridley, MBA, MA
