Supporting Court-Involved Youth in the District of Columbia: A Twitter Chat for Youth Justice Awareness Month Tuesday, October 27, 12 - 1 pm ET President Obama proclaimed October Youth Justice Awareness Month. In honor of #YJAM, the Trauma...
Father Jeff Putthoff, SJ, Founder, Hopeworks N’Camden (center), was ecstatic about the reach of his presentation the day before—well beyond the Department of Labor (DOL) auditorium in Washington, DC and out across the country to more than...
The first day of Building a Trauma-Informed Nation began with a greeting by Gary Slutkin, founder and director of Cure Violence . He wished a “good morning” to those in the West and a “good afternoon” to...
I had a chance to talk ACEs on a Ward walk with Mayor Muriel Bowser and her Health Department head Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt on Saturday. It was gratifying. Will work with the DC Trauma-Informed Initiative on follow-up.
A diverse group of school staff, mental health professionals, justice advocates, and city employees recently crowded the Moot Court Room at the University of the District of Columbia David E. Clark Law School to begin dismantling the school to prison...
Two-and-a-half years ago, a school administrator confronted District of Columbia Councilmember David Grosso with a stark and surprising reality when he visited the Walker-Jones Education Campus to learn about a literacy intervention program. At the...
Statement for the Record for the Public Roundtable “The Value of Investing in Trauma-Informed Public Schools and Support Services” The Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Education June 23, 2015 Elizabeth Prewitt,...
June 23, 2015 First published by the Children's Law Center . Forty percent of DC high school students witness violence in the course of just one year. About 4,000 DC public school students are homeless. There are over 1,000 DC children in...
James Redford, director of Paper Tigers , a documentary about the journey of students and teachers at a trauma-sensitive alternative high school in Walla Walla, Washington, posed a provocative question in a recent blog : can school...
The tragic suicide of 22-year old Kalief Browder shocked the country. Browder was arrested at 16 and spent years at the Rikers Island jail, including 800 days in solitary confinement. He was never tried or...
Two data briefs are attached on Adverse Childhood Experiences in the District of Columbia compared to national data and to data in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland and to data in Arlington County and Alexandria. The profiles...
A terrific networking opportunity took place on June 3 in downtown Washington, DC when my daughter, ACEs Connection member Liz Castaneda, Peer Projects Coordinator for Via Hope in Austin, TX (left), along with her son Mateas, and I (center) met for...
I am a different kind of boi, one who has had to live two lives before becoming one. I'm different, because I was born biologically a female, raised as a female, who later in life transitioned to living as a male. I attended high school...
When I heard this vignette, I realized the full potential of the documentary Paper Tigers to change how people think about childhood adversity and mobilize them to demand trauma-informed practices and policies—in schools, in...