Children and youth in care are more likely to have experienced trauma that can affect future health. A comprehensive, trauma-informed health strategy for these children and youth is long overdue.
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During spring and summer, as more people consider exercising outdoors, a trauma- and violence-informed approach to physical activity can help ensure equity, inclusion, safety and access.
A trauma-informed approach to education can help educators acknowledge and address the adversities faced by Black and Indigenous students.
Abuse, neglect or witnessing violence at home can lead kids to misbehave. Some schools are doing away with expulsions to focus on childhood trauma instead.
Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
In some Manitoba schools, educators are working to recognize that the most urgent need for children who have experienced trauma is to establish the child’s sense of safety in the school.
When care is equity-oriented, patients report fewer depression and trauma symptoms, less chronic pain and improved quality of life.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice helps demonstrate that the lynching of black people was not the fault of victims. But telling this history risks re-traumatizing the black community.
Childhood trauma impacts women’s health and can be passed from parent to child. New research shows that when new mothers feel supported, the risk of pregnancy complications is reduced.
A new model shows how the Canadian school system can play a healing role - for children traumatized by war, displacement and abuse.
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Professor of Education, University of Winnipeg
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Max Bell Burns Policy Fellow, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology (Clinical Psychology by Training), Howard University
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Professor of Psychology, Pepperdine University
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Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia
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Sessional Instructor, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University
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Associate professor, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
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Professor and Department Head of CTL, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
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Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Carleton University
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Clinical Social Worker and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, PhD candidate (health), Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
