FPHS Trauma and Assistance

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Trauma is defined as a deeply personal or disturbing experience and can be categorized in Six ways: Physical trauma, psychological trauma, social trauma, historical trauma, chronic trauma, and vicarious or secondary trauma.

As educators, we recognize that trauma not only impacts the social emotional well being of our scholars it often affects are scholars ability to learn. In the NEA Today article titled "How Trauma is Changing Children's Brains", author Mary Ellen Flannery reports that traumatized children often have struggles with test score, aggression and language development. This manifest itself with struggling math, science and English skill levels, a hyper-awareness that can lead to triggered aggression and in appropriate "acting out" of feelings and emotions.

When trauma is experienced in a family or in our scholars, the leadership of Forest Park High School are prepared with resources to assist our families in finding normality. Social Worker, Kashera Robinson, has a wealth of resources from small group interactions to access to transportation assistance and food security for families in need. In addition, Ms Amanda Peterson, school pyschologist can assist scholars and families to identifying specific strategies to academic success. We also partner with Communities in Schools, that brings mentoring within the halls of Forest Park High School to make mentoring a way of life.

Resource for teachers, parents and students

What Does It Mean To Be Trauma-Informed? A 4-Part Video ExplainerStudies show that children who experience traumatic stress are more likely to struggle in the classroom. But as our understanding of how students are affected by trauma expands, so, too, does our understanding of how to build a school environment to help them.