A recent initiative from America’s Promise Alliance—an organization best known for its efforts to boost high school graduation rates—supports work with communities to improve health in schools. Addressing trauma will be a major focus of that work, which is backed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and reflects growing interest among funders and nonprofits in this area.
The organization is working on six community-led projects to make schools more healthy. Communities identified their own challenges and proposed solutions. Of the six communities, four are addressing trauma and mental health in schools.
Communities in Crook County, Oregon, Jacksonville, Florida, Staten Island, New York and St. Louis, Missouri, are working to bring trauma-informed practices and mental health resources to local schools with support from the alliance’s Every School Healthy initiative, which launched late last year. Each community identified challenges themselves and gets $300,000 to put solutions in place.
[For more on this story by Caitlin Reilly, go to https://www.insidephilanthropy...uma-front-and-center]
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