Baltimore Schools’ Mission: Help Students Cope With Trauma

BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials in Baltimore and other cities are creating unique learning spaces to help students traumatized by violence and poverty.
Trauma-sensitive schools offer mental-health clinicians, mindfulness exercises, and abundant “peace corners” with pillows and books where students can retreat and compose themselves.
The schools come in response to a growing realization among educators that chronic childhood trauma affects brain development and creates the risk of he