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What do you hear on an airplane? Put on your oxygen mask first. Well in helping professions we often miss these opportunities because we are busy helping everyone else. Consider our own trauma. The trauma we face every day.

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Meghan-So take a look at this slide. Anyone brave enough to share thoughts on this one? Anyone see impacts on your team? What do we do about it? How does it help to recognize trauma- even our own trauma and create strategies to support one another through these difficult situations?

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Stats as of 2019

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What is the ACES study? Conducted from 95-97 in Southern Cali. Members received exams and surveys about childhood experiences and current Health status and behaviors. The prevalence of ACES was positively correlated with health issues. The CDC continues ongoing surveillance of the ACES study members with medical assessments.

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We all have multiple obligations each day. We have the weight the benefit of adding to each bucket from each source and each requirement. When you take away from one bucket you have to add to another. We don’t believe that a trauma focused approach depletes another bucket, but in fact can reduce the burden. Every student succeeds act, formerly no student left behind, parents, student’s personal experience, your needs and interest as a teacher.

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What we know about brain science and the actual physiological changes that occur in the brain when a child is exposed to trauma is phenomenal. We know that if we speak with children and engrain a trauma, self regulation and teaming balance now that it will benefit them greatly in the future, leading to better outcomes, improved graduation rates and mental health issues addressed at an earlier age.

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What we know about brain science and the actual physiological changes that occur in the brain when a child is exposed to trauma is phenomenal. We know that if we speak with children and engrain a trauma, self regulation and teaming balance now that it will benefit them greatly in the future, leading to better outcomes, improved graduation rates and mental health issues addressed at an earlier age.

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Trauma during childhood affects many aspects of a child’s functioning because childhood is when the brain develops and becomes organized.

Even though a baby is born with 100 billion brain cells, the connections between these cells form over time.  These connections, called neural pathways, are like the wiring in a house or highways that connect one part of the brain to the other.

When  a child is exposed to trauma these pathways form differently, or simply fail to form. Its like a two track and a road and a paved road. If a child experiences trauma and then goes to school or to other situations where the behaviors or emotions

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When faced with a threat:

-The brain triggers the release of adrenaline, cortisol, and other stress hormones.  These chemicals activate the systems you need to immediately respond to the threat- either by fighting back, getting away, or freezing.

-The area of the brain that prompts the response is sometimes called “primitive brain”.  It is the first part of the brain to develop and controls the most basic functions and reactions that we need to survive- including fear, anger, sexual responses and memory.  It’s the primitive brain that enables us to make the split second decisions that protect us in a dangerous situation.

-Other, more advanced parts of the brain are responsible for thinking, reasoning and consciously processing information.  These areas of the brain help to analyze the threat and signal the primitive brain to stop pumping out stress hormones so the body’s systems can return to normal.

-When you realize that you’re looking at a stick and not a snake, you feel yourself relax- you know that those higher centers have done their job.

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For most people, the body’s emergency response shuts down shortly after danger has passed.

-But in children exposed to severe or chronic trauma, the emergency response system can get stuck in the “on” position.

-The stress hormones keep flowing and make it harder for the parts of the brain that think and plan to work efficiently.  The stress hormones and related brain chemicals that are generated actually get in the way of rational thinking.

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Trauma can impair the acquisition of developmental

competencies in:

•   cognitive functioning

• emotional regulation

• Interpersonal relationships

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Trauma can impair the acquisition of developmental

competencies in:

•   cognitive functioning

• emotional regulation

• Interpersonal relationships

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Trauma can impair the acquisition of developmental

competencies in:

•   cognitive functioning

• emotional regulation

• Interpersonal relationships

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Kids can learn about trauma and be able to share their experiences to support classroom maintenance. In this video the children are from a California school that taught children deep breathing and calming exercises and how their brains work. Listen to their verbiage.

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Share what we have learned about sensory profiles and impact. Share study about technology, decrease in empathy and increase in narcissism. Share mentor experience with student frequently expelled. Positive behavioral interventions is a type of programming aimed at assisting children learn the impact of their behaviors, underlying causes and ways in which this can be ameliorated and underlying reasons. The U of M program is a free program aimed at training social workers and counselors in schools in DBT and trauma interventions. It is called TRAILS

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Why we wanted to do this. What are the goals and what we wish to see changed? Talk about a family that has changed – Boyce during the MIM and the interactions. What we saw with dad and how that changed our view of him even after all of the visits, discussions, services…

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The world view not impacted by trauma.  A peaceful day in the park, safe and no threats.

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How trauma colors a child’s perception of the world.  Adults know that it is safe, but the child has internalized that threat is everywhere, and this is how they see their world everywhere they go, threat is everywhere and even innocuous events/stimuli may trigger them to a survival state.