Healing Centered

Helping Teachers Manage the Weight of Trauma: Understanding and mitigating the effects of secondary traumatic stress for educators

Teachers, counselors, and administrators may recognize the cumulative stressors that they face, but they don’t always realize that their symptoms are a common reaction to working with traumatized children. This article and compiled resources help educators and leaders navigate secondary traumatic stress and burn-out in school staff.

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Healing Centered Engagement

Flourish Agenda provides training and consultation to equip schools, youth agencies, foundations, and local governments with strategies, trainings, and tools that enhance learning and healthy development for youth. Also offers an online Healing Centered Engagement certifcate program.

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Healing Schools: A Framework for Joining Trauma-Informed Care, Restorative Justice, and Multicultural Education for Whole School Reform (2023)

This article brings together “healing schools” with trauma-informed care, restorative justice, and multicultural education coming together under one integrated framework. Authors call for creation of healing schools because: 1) Schools can play a valuable role in promoting healing and well-being among the students and families with whom they engage and 2) Many urban schools themselves need healing because they have become systems of toxic environments for adults and youth alike. Framework includes four key values: relationships, safety, belonging, and agency.

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