By Derry Journal, September 8, 2019
Oakgrove Integrated College last week became the first school in Northern Ireland to take part in the innovative ‘Trauma Informed Compassionate Schools Initiative’ – a programme designed to help educators better understand how and why Adverse Childhood Experiences can impact a child’s development.
Held in the school’s assembly hall on Wednesday last, the event saw over 100 members of staff take part in the programme delivered by a team from Ulster University led by Dr Karen Kirby, Senior Lecturer and Psychologist, Ulster University, in collaboration with Ms Marie Dunn, Director of Resilio and Mrs Katrina Crilly, Principal, Oakgrove Integrated College.
The workshop and research pilot introduced practical, individual and classroom strategies to staff to enable them to help students begin to feel safe, develop better relationships with teaching staff and support the increase of resilience and social and emotional wellbeing that would allow their students to develop their full academic potential.
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