When students at Mercer County Intermediate School returned to in-person learning during the 2021-2022 school year, school counselor Amy Riley noticed heightened anxiety among the third through fifth ...

Small changes in language and classroom routines can increase connection and improve learning for young students.

As part of our Special Series "Addressing Youth Mental Health," Kate Endries, LMSW, National Director of Trauma-Informed Practice at Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Susan Haspel, State Director of ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

This month, nearly 100 Boys & Girls Clubs of America trained trauma-informed staff were invited to its Atlanta headquarters for the organization’s first mental health and wellness summit. Complete ...

Educators are tasked with the responsibility to create a safe and supportive environment for our students and colleagues. In recent years, we’ve seen a marked increase in stress and trauma-related ...

Leah Griffin, a sexual assault victim advocate who is working closely with Rep. Tina Orwall to clear Washington state?s backlog of rape kits, photographed at her home in White Center on March 31, 2021 ...

“Trauma is very common, with an estimated one third of the U.S. population expected to experience severe trauma in their lifetime.” 1 Attorneys who service clients who have experienced trauma should ...

"Trauma-informed" has become a crucial term in law enforcement training nationwide over the past several years. Understanding how trauma affects the citizens we serve is essential for law enforcement ...

As a sexual assault survivor, Leah Griffin has spent years working to reform the public policies that she says repeatedly undercut her attempts to seek justice and heal. After the 2014 assault, she ...