Not only have these parents suffered the types of trauma that were measured in the ACE Study, but they have also experienced other types of adversity, such as witnessing violence outside the home, bullying, racism, and involvement with systems that can traumatize, such as schools with zero-tol...
4. “Mainstreaming” of instruction in parenting and other life experiences in the schools. 5. Programs designed to reduce youth perceptions of powerlessness and uselessness. Example: A program aimed at organizing food-buying cooperatives among families with teen-agers, in which teens are encouraged...
River View is only one facility within a larger ecosystem of hundreds of boarding schools and camps nationwide that target troubled teens, which by some estimates serve between 10,000 and 14,000 young people per year. A 2007 Government Accountability Officereportis still considered the best researc...
and told her she wasn't allowed to talk to anyone for the first week. None of the 40 other students could speak to or look at her, either. The girls at this place were like Bachrach — supposedly troubled teens who needed an intervention that their parents couldn't provide. The school...