HELPING TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN LEARN, VOLUMES 1 and 2
These resources from the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI) provide an in-depth approach to understanding the impacts of trauma on children’s learning, behavior and relationships at school (Vol.1), and to creating trauma-sensitive, safe and supportive learning environments that benefit all students (Vol.2). TLPI’s website includes Tools and Resources for creating trauma-sensitive schools, including brief videos that capture what trauma-sensitive schools at the elementary and secondary levels look like. Additionally the site contains research about the efficacy and benefits of trauma-sensitive schools, including the American Institutes for Research’s Trauma-Sensitive Schools Descriptive Study and a Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development report titled An Evaluation of TLPI’s Inquiry-Based Process. The latter report details the shifts in educator thinking and in practice that occurred as a result of using the process to become a trauma-sensitive school. Of note, these publications also describe the “Flexible Framework” which provided the foundation for the MA Safe and Supportive Schools Framework Statute enacted in 2014.