Healing in the Classroom: Juneau School Tries New Tack to Help Students [juneauempire.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/7/193:19 PM

By Michael S. Lockett, Juneau Empire, December 4, 2019

Just as a house built on a shattered foundation won’t stand straight, mounting research points toward a child’s earliest years as setting a pattern that will last their whole life.

“What happens early in your life has really big and dramatic impact on the later parts of your life,” said Alex Newton, the counselor at Glacier Valley Elementary School – Sít’ Eetí Shaanáx. “All development for kids starts with their early caregiver experience.”

Newton and GVE principal Lucy Potter spoke at the JAMHI Health and Wellness building on Tuesday night as the most recent part of the Inside Passages Mental Health Speakers Series.

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