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May 10, 2021
Responding to Community Trauma in the Classroom – May Webinar Series
How do ABE teachers address local and national events that can lead to community trauma, without further causing learners or themselves additional pain? Community, or collective trauma, is what occurs when communities are exposed to regular incidents of interpersonal, historical or intergenerational traumatic events. Even if the events or violence only impact a few people, the resulting traumatic experience can have extensive structural and social consequences for the entire community.
The events of the past year have resulted in a rising awareness of the impact of community trauma, and many ABE teachers are searching for the best ways to support their students. In response, ATLAS is offering a two-part training that will provide ABE teachers with a series of tools to address difficult topics in the classroom in a supportive way that provides space and dialogue for processing community trauma.
Part 1 – Thursday, May 20, 4:00-5:30 pm CDT
The first part of the training will be led by Lucille Rosario, faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and school social worker at Intermediate District 287, where she is part of the trauma leadership team. During this webinar, participants will learn how to create a classroom environment that provides a containing space for responding to community trauma and stressors, proactive measures and trauma-informed strategies for addressing shared community trauma when it happens, and strategies for recognizing and responding to compassion fatigue without inadvertently causing additional harm.
