We talk with Stephanie Carnes, a trauma-focused bilingual school social worker in a large public high school in New York’s Hudson Valley. Stephanie worked as the lead clinician in a federally-funded shelter program for unaccompanied children from Central America and as a consultant she challenges the districts and agencies with whom she works to re-envision the meaning of an inclusive community. We talk about the necessity to normalize mental health care, how to create safe environments for immigrant children in American schools, and the power of their resilience.
References
Find more about Stephanie on createculturalcompetence.com
Overview
00:00-01:45 Intros
01:46-03:35 How Stephanie began working with immigrants
03:36-06:04 Central American immigrant children’s trauma—in country of origin and through the U.S. border
06:05-08:48 Continued trauma in the U.S.
08:49-12:04 Need for interventions in schools
12:05-16:49 Desahogarse (Unburdening) trauma treatment
16:50-19:10 Post-traumatic growth
19:11-24:37 What schools and communities can do to reduce students’ trauma
24:38-27:41 Working as a consultant to a school
27:42-29:59 Helping educators to cope with secondary trauma
30:00-31:15 “This is doable work.”
31:16-34:00 Outro
Transcript
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