The Times-Picayune spent an entire school year with a kids' football team to tell the story of childhood trauma [poynter.org]

Alicia Doktor 8/30/184:00 AM

In their work covering crime in New Orleans, Richard Webster and Jonathan Bullington often saw neighborhood kids who’d been witnesses, lost family members and were present at crime scenes.

And they wondered — what does that do to kids?

The two NOLA.com | Times-Picayune reporters spent one school year finding out. Their series, “The Children of Central City,” tells the story of a group of kids, their families and schools, but also the science behind trauma and what it means for all of them.

[For more on this story by KRISTEN HARE, go to https://www.poynter.org/news/t...ory-childhood-trauma]

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