Investigators: Yasmin Harman-Smith, Lizzie Button
Project description
For children impacted by complex trauma, their experience at school can be punctuated by behavioural incidences, fearfulness and anxiousness, inability to concentrate, difficulty developing and maintaining relationships with peers and adults, struggles with emotional regulation, high rates of absenteeism, and school exclusion.
In South Australia, the Department for Education has made available a range of training options to support schools to improve their capacity to work with children who have been impacted by trauma.
The Kids Research Institute Australia has been contracted to evaluate this initiative in partnership with the Department. The research team’s focus is to explore schools’ experiences of implementing trauma-informed practice and develop an understanding of how principles are applied, barriers to implementing practices, and factors that facilitate schools’ adoption of the approaches.
External collaborators
Department for Education, South Australia
Download the final Evaluation of Tramua-Informed Practices in Education report here.