Serving Victims First in the “Second Home”: School-Based Trauma Interventions in Delaware

Exposure to stressful and traumatic events impacts the social, academic, and emotional functioning in children. Compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, every child is attending school with heightened stress. The importance of trauma-informed classrooms, programming like Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, and strategies to work from a systemic lens to heal and promote resilience will be discussed.