Few children who are abused or in dysfunctional homes come to school ready to share their traumas. Instead, they throw a chair or curse at the teacher before storming out.
To react to those outbursts with affection and understanding means recognizing children — including teenagers — are not necessarily in control of their behavior. That can be a bitter pill to swallow, even for those who understand behavioral science and brain chemistry.
And it’s difficult to communicate what a difference it makes to recognize those childhood traumas and address them in a way that leads to a healthier, happier person.
Rather than spend three hours trying to convey the aims of a community-based child abuse prevention response to ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, an area pilot project instead showed how one community successfully countered the abuses teenagers had suffered.
[For more of this story, written by Christina Crippes, go to http://wcfcourier.com/news/loc...3b-1d87d47cbdeb.html]
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