Cheyney University, the Pennsylvania's state-owned historically black university is launching a new program this summer to train teachers on the ins and outs of helping traumatized children to learn.
The certificate program “Trauma-informed Education,” or TIES will be offered at Cheyney's Center City campus in Philadelphia.
Its launch comes as Cheyney, which boasts an identity as the nation's oldest historically black post-secondary education institution, struggles to climb out of a downward spiral of declining enrollment and financial problems.
Officials are hoping to revive the school through a distinctive approach to specific topics not available elsewhere, including the creation of an “Institute for the Contemporary African-American Experience” within the university.
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