by Gillian Wadsworth, LCSW | Content Area
On May 12th, Humboldt County Office of Education’s screening of Paper Tigers. Paper Tigers documents one year in the life of Lincoln High School, an alternative education high school in Walla Walla, Washington that experienced extraordinary improvements in student...
by Gillian Wadsworth, LCSW | Content Area
For the most part, we don’t live in emotional consumption. We have tools to regulate it and we’re grateful when it’s over. For youth chronically exposed to toxic stress or trauma who do not have balancing factors of resilience, emotional consumption is exactly where...
by Gillian Wadsworth, LCSW | Content Area
Mirror Mirror…In Our Hands – (Trauma Informed Work in Schools) A warm greeting from a teacher to a 16 year-old student is met with stony silence. F-bombs crash against each other in the hallways and echo off bathroom walls. In the classroom, shrill laughter and...