Los Angeles Unified School District
Director of school mental health and crisis counseling and intervention services for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
After witnessing school shootings, how do kids cope? Some of the children who experienced the shooting at North Park Elementary School yesterday are likely to suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Kids who experience violence can have their lives upended by the emotional toll. It can keep them from doing well in school, and even functioning well in their lives outside the classrooms.
Which Way, L.A.?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in L.A. Schools With hugs all around, Mayor Villaraigosa , LA’s elected School Board and Superintendent Brewer announced today that the Mayor will try to improve student performance in two high schools and their feeder schools. The specific schools have not been named and the Teachers’ Union is worried about what it calls “hostile takeovers”. Meantime, here’s some insight into why children in troubled neighborhoods don’t do well in school. An astonishing number have PTSD —post traumatic stress disorder—at nearly twice the rate of the troops coming back from Iraq. LA Unified is one of the few urban districts that acknowledge the problem. A special thank you to Jill Tucker of the San Francisco Chronicle for today's topic.
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