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A Marshall Plan for Trauma [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

 
HillRag
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Between Academic Success and Failure: Unresolved Trauma, Part 3

“We’re only now becoming facile in the language of trauma,” said DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who is heartened by the District’s progress. “This is an opportunity to throw a Marshall Plan out there.”

A $12 billion, post-World War II initiative, the Marshall Plan was designed by the United States to prevent the spread of Communism and to assist European countries in restructuring their battered cities and bruised culture. Many people use it as an analogy to argue that something huge and dramatic must be done to solve a social or economic problem.

DC education and health advocates, parents, students and others have argued such a broad, inclusive plan is needed to deal with a crisis in childhood trauma. Nearly 50 percent of DC children citywide have suffered two or more traumatic events, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Those traumas could include abuse and neglect, parental abandonment, parental incarceration, bullying, homelessness, limited family income, poverty, substance abuse, domestic and general violence. Children aged 6 to 17 who have had two or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are twice as likely to be disengaged from school compared to untraumatized peers, researchers have concluded.

[For more on this story by Jonetta Rose Barras, go to https://www.centerforhealthjou...arshall-plan-trauma?]

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