Thank you for your interest in attending The Impact of Childhood Trauma on High School Performance
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Time: 8:30 am - 3:15 pm
Cost: $109 for CASDA Members/$218 for non-members
Overview:
Paper Tigers, One High School’s Unlikely Success Story, a new film directed by James Redford, is an
intimate look into the lives of selected students at Lincoln High School, an alternative high school that specializes in educating traumatized youth. The film examines the inspiring promise of Trauma
Informed Communities, a movement that is showing great promise in healing youth struggling with the dark legacy of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). ACE includes verbal, physical or sexual abuse, as well as family dysfunction . The Centers for Disease Control, in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego, conducted the ACE Study, one of the largest investigations ever to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being.
The workshop will engage participants in:
· Viewing Paper Tigers in four segments
· Reviewing the findings of the ACE Study as they relate to the healthy development of youth
· Small group guided discussions about the lifelong impact of exposure to multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences and what actions schools can take to minimize this impact
· Completing an ACE survey
· Creating an action plan for developing a Trauma Informed Community in your school
Presenters:
Heather Larkin, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University at Albany’s School of Social Welfare and Project Director of the Healthy Environments and Relationships That Support (HEARTS) Initiative for
adverse childhood experiences (ACE) response. She translates ACE knowledge into policy, programs,
and practice and engages in collaborative, community-engaged research.
Tim Hathaway, Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse New York, brings 28 years of experience with children and families and has a strong commitment to the work of supporting communities as they create healthy environments for families and children. Prevent Child Abuse NY has been a advocate for the
advancement of ACES for many years and in 2015 became a partner with the Paper Tigers production team to bring the film to NY state.
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