Our Mission
Promote understanding in higher education and the larger community of the profound impact trauma and adversity have on the learning brain and academic resilience in higher education, as well as how a strengths based, trauma-informed campus and community can productively support development of critical importance to academic and workplace success.
Our Values
Every encounter area of the higher education community —
from pedagogy to campus safety, advising to financial aid, facilities to college policies and administration— can be informed by recognizing the prevalence of trauma, adversity, and toxic stress and how these impact academic resilience. Instead of a prescriptive list of teaching or institutional practices, trauma informed education describes a perspective or lens through which practices and services are evaluated in view of lived experience, basic neurobiology, and the resilience and strengths students bring to higher education.
our goals
Progressively grow and sustain a culture of trauma-informed knowledge and best practices across the institution.
Research funding, design, and protocols for ethical and responsible adversity, trauma, and resilience questionnaire in order to create an empirical portrait querying the link between trauma, adversity, and academic resilience.
Function as a resource for the higher education community by means of a resource-rich website, research, events, and continuing education including speaking and workshops regarding trauma-informed higher educational practices, neurobiological insights relevant to post-secondary success, as well as resilience as a skill that can every day be developed to strengthen the academic and workplace communities.