Trauma Goes to School: Policy, Prevalence, and Promising Practices
School communities around the world are struggling to effectively counter trauma’s distressing impact on classrooms. Trauma is powerful force that negatively impacts a child’s ability to function and learn in the classroom, connect with their classmates, and build trusting relationships with teachers. Traumatic expression and unsafe behaviors have increased safety concerns for students, their peers, and classroom staff.
The symposium will highlight the challenges that many students, teachers, and school administrators are facing, highlight policy developments, and offer promising intervention practices for schools and providers.
Overview
Learning Objectives
- Understand the legislative efforts to bring additional trauma-informed resources to Maryland schools
- Learn intervention techniques at the student, family, school-wide and community levels
- Review the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), including demographics and major findings, and present statewide efforts to increase awareness and inform policy and practices
- Learn about the Circle of Security – Classroom approach and highlight initial pilot efforts.
Symposium Agenda
| 8:00 a.m. |
Attendee Check-in, Continental Breakfast & Networking |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Marcel Wright, MBA, Chair, Board of Directors, The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness
Jimmy Venza, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Lourie Center |
| 8:35 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Jheanelle Wilkins, Maryland State Legislative Delegate, Montgomery County |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker: Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families & Professor of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science and Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London
Q&A |
| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
Morning Break |
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker: Frank Kros, MSW, JD, Executive Vice President, The Children’s Guild, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Interface Master Trainer
Q&A |
| 12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m |
Lunch (Provided on-site) |
| 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. |
Neil Boris, MD, Medical Director and Research Liaison, Circle of Security International
Q&A |
| 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m |
Sharon Hoover, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, University Medical Center
Q&A |
| 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Final remarks and dismissal |
Who Should Attend
School system administrators, teachers and providers who care for children 3-12 years of age and their families.
Continuing Education Units
The event is approved for 5.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for social workers, counselors and psychologists and Continuing Medical Units (CMEs) for physicians.
Parking
Free parking is available in the hotel parking lot.
