The pandemic feels like a slow-moving trauma, affecting all of us in many ways, especially students of all ages but also teachers and administrators.  This multi-faceted trauma affects our mental health in both K-12 and higher education as we try to adjust to “the new normal.”  This is hard work.  Many of our students are traumatized, as are many staff.

Join us on Friday, December 11, for an all-day (8:30-3:30) Zoom conference on “Strategies for Ameliorating Trauma: We Have Reason for Hope,” co-sponsored by CAEOP (Conn. Association for Educational Opportunity Programs) and CHERE.  Dr. Karen Gross, author of Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door, will enhance our understanding of trauma with real examples and provide, in an interactive style, tools for addressing trauma in our students and ourselves.  A follow-up session on Jan. 29^th will bring us full circle to better learn how to apply the lessons that participants took from Dec. 11.

Your registration fee -- $85 -- will include the cost of Dr. Gross’ book that will be sent to you, or emailed if you choose the electronic version, after you register.   Readings to help you prep for Dec. 11 will be sent beforehand.