On Feb. 15 the school board was asked to reflect on future needs. One includes adding a social worker next year whose pay would be split three ways -- $25,000 each -- between the school district, Pierce County and St. Croix County.
Superintendent Jamie Benson referred to a couple of research studies that show how a “trauma-filled childhood” affects brain development and often leads to risk factors of alcoholism, suicidal tendencies, criminal behavior, anxiety, depression, diseases, homelessness and more.
One national study of 17,000 people labeled the problems faced by kids as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). Benson said it’s not surprising to find that ACEs “are powerful determinants of who we become as adults.”
[For more of this story, written by Phil Pfeuhler, go to http://www.riverfallsjournal.c...l-worker-and-spanish]
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