Hammocks and Grief Baskets: Inside Newark's Efforts to Help Students Manage Trauma [patch.com]

These numbers [of traumatized students] in Newark, bear a 'marked similarity' to those presented in 2000 - by an Epidemiologist at [then Dartmouth, now] Geisel Medical School 'Grand Rounds': "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD". Similar numbers have subsequently been reported in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, and in June of 2018- at five charter schools in New Orleans. If this was 'Caronavirus', would it take almost two decades to recognize this as an 'Epidemic' ? ? ?

The World Health Organization's adoption [and expansion of criteria] of the US CDC/Kaiser-Permanente ACE Study's 'screening tool' (The WHO ACE International Questionnaire)-which WHO used in their 2013 assessment of the world's healthiest children [the USA ranked only 25th in that WHO assessment], may give us further rationale for taking action to protect the current and future generations of our children.

Distinguishing Which ACEs to consider, (or whether to develop separate screens for different 'age groups of "Children"--as a different article noted some experiences that are likely 'traumas' for Birth to-3 year olds - such as were documented among Romanian Orphans, though may rarely occur among adolescents...