By Kyle Stucker, Fosters.com, January 22, 2020
Hilltop City education, public safety and social service leaders hope this spring to soft launch a new collaborative model for helping prevent and respond to childhood trauma.
The goal of creating an Adverse Childhood Experience Response Team in Somersworth is to bring resources together better than ever before, more proactively refer families to individualized services, and more deeply implement trauma-informed care principles at all levels of the partnering entities.
“The goal is to help families with young children and to help young children have a healthy start,” said Kerry Martinelli, a kindergarten teacher at Idlehurst Elementary School and co-chair of the Somersworth Ready Together (SRT) Early Childhood Coalition. “The ACERT model seemed like a natural project for us to attempt to implement.”
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