Many children and families in Cascade County are not safe from trauma, but community members are stepping up to help mitigate the emotional and behavioral issues brought on by traumatic events.
“One in four kids are exposed to trauma,” said Amy Foster Wolferman, assistant director for the University of Montana’s Institute for Educational Research and Service. “But kids are resilient. Two out of three will grow up and beat the odds.”
Wolferman stood before 20 local social services professionals from the Department of Public Health and Human Services to teach them how to make themselves and their organizations more trauma informed.
As part of its annual grants, the United Way awarded Alliance for Youth $6,000 to spearhead the trauma-informed community initiative, a new program that would expand trauma-informed training into the community.
[For more of this story, written by Sarah Dettmer, go to http://www.greatfallstribune.c...ommunities/95240580/]
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