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Cobscook Community Learning Center's  TREE Program is a collaborative educational initiative recently launched in far Downeast Maine. Partnering with students, teachers, families, and community members, the program seeks to create emotionally and socially supportive environments where all children can learn.

TREE ~Transforming Rural Experience in Education is based on the understanding that adversity, stress, and trauma are not just individual mental health issues, but also systemic, generational issues that are most effectively addressed by thoughtful, informed, and committed action on the part of all members of the community.

With research and design partners from The University of Maine and Colby College, the TREE approach draws on neuroscientific research and best practices in human development and education to address the barriers to healthy development and learning for students in high-poverty rural schools.

Specifically the TREE program supports schools in developing trauma informed frameworks. We seek to help educators understand what the ACE study means for the classroom. We know that children from families experiencing trauma don't leave their life circumstances at the classroom door. Stress follows them inside, and Adverse Childhood Experiences can make it hard for a child to show up with a "learning -ready" brain. We know that safe, stable, supportive relationships can often mitigate the consequences of ACEs. TREE supports schools in taking the journey to becoming trauma informed -resilience focused school environments.