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Anne-Marie Clark
9:15 PM - PublicReaching out to kids in high schools...
"The ACE Study measured 10 common types of childhood trauma. Five were the usual suspects: emotional, sexual and physical abuse, and emotional and physical neglect. Five were family problems: a parent addicted to alcohol or other drugs, seeing a mother being abused, a family member in prison, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, and a parent who’s disappeared through abandoning the family or divorce."
"The ACE Study measured 10 common types of childhood trauma. Five were the usual suspects: emotional, sexual and physical abuse, and emotional and physical neglect. Five were family problems: a parent addicted to alcohol or other drugs, seeing a mother being abused, a family member in prison, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, and a parent who’s disappeared through abandoning the family or divorce."
“If the staff aren’t ready, there’s no point in going in and trying to move a system,” she says. “There have been a couple of schools where they’ve had a very resistant staff, and we’ve decided to leave and try again another time.”
H/t +Shannon Fortenberry, who wrote: "This is the problem with the school system today... Most administrators and teachers are resistant to change. They want to do the same thing they've always done, even though it's NOT working anymore!"
H/t +Shannon Fortenberry, who wrote: "This is the problem with the school system today... Most administrators and teachers are resistant to change. They want to do the same thing they've always done, even though it's NOT working anymore!"
