Trauma-Informed Care

building trauma-Informed schools and communities

Trauma-Informed Care is a strengths-based framework that:

Promotes the understanding and responsiveness to trauma and its potential impact through systematic data-based training and support.

Recognizes how trauma can be experienced through physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and community events that impact the learning environment and ability for healthy self-regulation and self-actualization.

Creates opportunities within the educational setting for resilience and the fostering of empowerment through ongoing interactions with trained trauma-informed care faculty and staff.

Trauma informed care is both a responsive and a preventative care that addresses the story of all in an empathetic and respectful manner to foster a safe learning environment for all.

Southwest ISD is engaged in an ongoing process to create a trauma-sensitive school district. We will be utilizing the Six Attributes of a Trauma-Sensitive School as a vision, and the Flexible Framework Tool designed by the Massachusetts Advocates for Children: Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative.

“The Flexible Framework is organized according to six core school operations: (1) Leadership; (2) Professional Development; (3) Access to Resources and Services; (4) Academic and Non-Academic Strategies; (5) Policies and Protocols; and (6) Collaboration with Families. The process outlined in Creating and Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools puts the Flexible Framework and the attributes to use to help educators ensure that they are weaving trauma sensitivity throughout all the operational functions of the school.”

Helping Traumatized Children Learn

Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI)

A collaboration of Massachusetts Advocates

For Children and Harvard Law School

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