Trauma and Resilience

In the past 25 years, research has revealed the profound impact of childhood adversity on health outcomes across the lifespan, with advances in neuroscience explaining specific impact of trauma on learning. With this knowledge, and in order to be trauma-informed, we must expand our understanding of adverse childhood experiences to include racism, both individual as well as historical and intergenerational racism. We will take a look at why our work to be trauma-informed must be anti-racist. 
ACEs, including racism, may paint a grim picture, but fortunately the research on resilience can offer us hopeful, meaningful strategies to keep kids safe and connected so they can learn. With these strategies, we can better support our current students, as well as improve outcomes for future generations. ​

Sara Robinson

Sara Robinson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who earned her M.Ed. and Ed.S. in Counselor Education from the University of Virginia. Sara worked as a family and individual therapist at an alternative-to-incarceration program in the Bronx, NY, before returning to Virginia to provide intensive in-home therapy at Region Ten Community Services Board, and later outpatient therapy at Charlottesville High School. She is currently the Director of Child & Family Outpatient and Crisis Services for Region Ten. She sits on the steering and training committees of The Greater Charlottesville Trauma-Informed Community Network, and is on the leadership board of the Virginia Trauma Recovery Network. Sara is a trainer for ACE Interface and the Community Resilience Initiative, and utilizes EMDR and TF-CBT in her private clinical practice. Sara has presented for MACTE, and this fall, she presented at the 20th Annual South Carolina Montessori Alliance Conference.        ​

Additional Resources:
​https://inservice.ascd.org/if-we-arent-addressing-racism-we-arent-addressing-trauma/