In collaboration with the Park City School District, The Speedy Foundation, and many other community partners, CONNECT is proud to present Resilience Week in Park City. The week will include the screening of three powerful, award winning films to create crucial dialogue within our community. All of the events are free and the entire family is welcome.
On Tuesday March 7th, we will screen Paper Tigers beginning at 6:00pm in the Jim Santy Auditorium at the Park City Library. More than two decades ago, two respected researchers published the game-changing Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. It revealed a troubling but irrefutable phenomenon: the more traumatic experiences the respondents had as children (such as physical and emotional abuse and neglect), the more likely they were to develop health problems later in life. However, this very same study contains the seed of hope: all of the above-mentioned risk factors—behavioral as well as physiological—can be offset by the presence of one dependable and caring adult. It doesn’t need to be the mother or the father. It doesn’t even need to be a close or distant relative. More often than not, that stable, caring adult is a teacher. Set within and around the campus of Lincoln Alternative High School in the rural community of Walla Walla, Washington, Paper Tigers asks the following questions: What does it mean to be a trauma-informed school? And how do you educate teens whose childhood experiences have left them with a brain and body ill-suited to learn? Following the film, we will hear from Authentic Strengths author Fatima Doman who will reveal how resilience, positive psychology, and the 24 character strengths are often viewed as the antidote to adverse childhood experiences.
For more information about these events,
please contact Shauna Wiest at shaunaparkcity@gmail.com
Shannon Decker at shannon@thespeedyfoundation.org
or Molly Miller at 20mmiller@pcschools.us" target="_blank">mmiller@pcschools.us.
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