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[i]*Think about if you were to walk out of your house right now and see somebody get shot three times by someone driving past, and die, their blood all over the sidewalk in front of your house.  Where your kids are usually standing to catch the bus.  If that happened to you or me, in McLean or Frederick or Bethesda, you would be traumatized.  You would cry on social media.  You would seek counseling for your PTSD, your anxiety, etc.    
- Now.  Imagine a life where seeing someone killed is absolutely nothing remarkable.  Nobody gives a damn that you are 4 and have seen 9 neighbors get shot / beat up.  From the very moment you opened your eyes, your entire community is entrenched in violence.  Trauma means absolutely nothing out of the ordinary to anybody, so nobody cares.  Your mother or grandmother certainly did not think it was necessary to send you to intensive therapy the first time you witnessed a shooting, or your step-dad beat up your mom and siblings.  Or beat you to a pulp.  This changes the brain.  The brain after trauma needs to be treated differently.  These kids cannot be taught like a standard public school.  NO WONDER THEY ARE FAILING ALL OF THE SCHOOLS.  When you have multiple siblings at home that need to eat, you haven't seen mom or her boyfriend in weeks, and somebody stole your EBT card.... You do not have time or energy to give a flying fudge about geometry theorems or the Han dynasty.  You also do NOT respond / if you do it is NOT WELL to being yelled at, or bells ringing, or someone demanding you do something, without respect or rapport.  Trauama informed care has 5 principles : safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness and empowerment. Teachers and those who work in trauma informed care  ensurethat the physical and emotional safety of an individual is addressed before anything else.  Next, the individual needs to know that the provider, whether teacher, therapist, social worker, case manager, PO, etc.,  is trustworthy. Trustworthiness can be evident in the [b]establishment [/b]and [b]consistency [/b]of boundaries and the clarity of what is expected in regards to tasks. (Example - teacher asks her class to be quiet in the hallway.  You whisper something to your friend.  She yells at you and you get a detention.  You respond, and the situation becomes dramatic, escalated and far larger than you whispering something to a friend.  Go back to the expectation that was set.  She said quiet.  She did not say how quiet, or how the level of quiet would be measured.  So to the student, he did nothing wrong.  Technically, he didn't.  Clarity of what is expected is crucial. Specific directions will change everything.  ).  Additionally, the more [b]choice [/b]an individual has and the more control they have over their service experience through a collaborative effort with service providers, the more likely the individual will participate in services and the more effective the services may be. Finally, focusing on an individual's strengths and empowering them to build on those strengths while developing stronger coping skills provides a healthy foundation for individuals to fall back on if and when they stop receiving services.  nine hours of daily programming focused on education, vocational training, health and wellness, community service and clinical services.
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