Change Starts Here
A New Opportunity for Healing, Empowering, and Restoring
Organizational Evolution - A Pivot Towards Trauma-Informed Care
The Glen Mills Schools has pivoted by applying an organizational change framework that has six key elements, each of which was evaluated from a trauma-sensitive perspective and informed the complete organizational transformation that has occurred over the last twenty-two months.
These six key elements are:
1. School-wide Infrastructure and Culture;
2. Staff Training;
3. Linking with Mental Health Professionals;
4. Academic Instruction for Traumatized Children;
5. Nonacademic Strategies; and
6. School Policies, Procedures, and Protocols
These six key elements are:
1. School-wide Infrastructure and Culture;
2. Staff Training;
3. Linking with Mental Health Professionals;
4. Academic Instruction for Traumatized Children;
5. Nonacademic Strategies; and
6. School Policies, Procedures, and Protocols
“The school's new administration took the audit to heart and appears to have adopted all of my recommendations, based on a review by my audit team... It's important to put it on record that school officials did do what my audit asked them to do."
- Auditor General Eugene DePasquale
A Student-Centric Approach
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Student-centric learning refers to a wide variety of educational programs, instructional techniques, and academic-support strategies which are employed to address the unique learning needs of students on an individual basis. These specific learning strategies also take students' interests, aspirations and cultural backgrounds into account. To accomplish this goal, teachers, credentialed school counselors, and other educational specialists utilize a wide variety of educational supports and also work collaboratively with each student's parents/guardian to set goals. Members of this student success team, advocate and support each student's individual needs and guide students towards reaching their goals. |
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Trauma-Informed Supports
F.R.E.S.H. S.T.A.R.T.S. - A Clinical Research StudyThe Glen Mills Schools has entered into collaboration with entities to ensure that our trauma-informed program design is making a positive, measurable impact. Dr. Stevie Grassetti, a licensed clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor at West Chester University, and will conduct a clinical research study to examine the implementation of tiered trauma supports for teens. As part of this research, Dr. Grassetti and her team will be providing behavioral health screens to identify Post-Traumatic Symptoms (PTS) in the youth we serve. Her team will deliver Tiered Therapeutic Supports (TTS), including Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) group therapy to students who show PTS symptoms. They will also deliver individual Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral therapy to students who do not show a reduction in PTS symptoms with CBITS. Dr. Grassetti will conduct trainings with our staff on understanding the impact of trauma, PTSD, and delivering compassionate trauma-informed support.
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Dr. Stevie Grassetti of West Chester University will be conducting a research study with our students called FRESH STARTS. One objective is to advance our scientific understanding about how to best treat traumatic stress among undeserved youth.
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A Trauma-Informed School Seeks To:
Ensure
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Encourage
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Establish
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