Every other year, our community comes together to put on Every 15 Minutes (E15M), a staged event graphically reenacting a drunk/drugged driving accident at our high school involving our students.
It has been brought to the organizers' attention that this event can be triggering to some students, and that we should no longer do E15M.
We have a follow-up overnight retreat with the key players and their parents where they process what happened and the emotions that arise. At the school, counselors are available for students who request or are observed needing help. The organizing committee is open to suggestions for making this event more proactively responsive to those who may be at risk for being traumatized.
These are my questions:
Has anyone approached doing an E15M with trauma-informed principles? And if so, what did you do?
Thank you.