Trauma is an umbrella term used to describe the inability of an individual or a community to respond in a healthy way to acute or chronic stress. Becoming “trauma-informed” means recognizing trauma and knowing that people who have been traumatized need support and understanding. Often, trauma survivors can be re-traumatized by well-meaning caregivers and community services providers.
Join us for this two-part series to learn:
- Physiological impacts of trauma on the brain & possible emotional, behavioral, social and intellectual/academic impacts on students in foster care
- Ways schools & classrooms are creating trauma-sensitive learning environments and strategies for responding to these impacts
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how they relate to life-long impacts for students who’ve experienced trauma.
- The importance of self-care; addressing our own traumatic experiences/history
*Complimentary Brunch will be provided!
Your Instructor:
Maurissa Szilagi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and holds a Masters of Education in Human Development and Psychology. Maurissa has her own private practice and specializes in foster and adoption and families who are undergoing huge attachment changes (separation and divorce). She is also the Clinical Supervisor for a non-profit that supports foster care and adoptive families. Maurissas's work encompasses supporting the foster and adoption community. She utilizes decades of experience both professionally and personally to support families and individuals who deserve the chance to feel attached and connected to others. Maurissa is here today to support you all in the challenges you face in providing support to these families and young people. Given, the post-covid world Maurissa recognizes the need to have a different lens and more skills and support to help all who enter the education world today. She is a mom to two young boys and is dedicated to raising them in a loving and connected home and healing from her own childhood.