To be a trauma-informed city takes a cultural shift and partnership [ctmirror.org]

Alicia Doktor 1/8/184:00 AM

When a kid acts out in New Britain, the first question teachers, administrators and mental health professionals are asking is no longer, “What’s wrong with you?” but, “What happened to you?”

The reaction is no longer to punish, but to empathize.

The shift is just the beginning of the city’s efforts to become “trauma-informed.”

[For more on this story by JULIA WERTH, go to https://ctmirror.org/2017/08/2...ift-and-partnership/]

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