{"id":59,"date":"2019-06-27T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/?p=59"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T15:09:50","slug":"aces-and-toxic-stress-how-do-they-relate-to-school-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/06\/27\/aces-and-toxic-stress-how-do-they-relate-to-school-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"ACEs and Toxic Stress&#8230;How Do They Relate to School Achievement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about mental health and how it relates to immigration and refugees for this class. One of the concepts I keep coming back to is toxic stress and its relationship with school achievement. If a student is under immense stress from family or unsafe home situations, it&#8217;s not feasible for them to do well in school. How can you focus on algebra when you&#8217;re not sure if you&#8217;ll have dinner that night or if there&#8217;s gang violence a block from your house?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/files\/2019\/06\/lonely-1822414_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a future teacher, I&#8217;ve been prepped for trauma-informed care and how to mentor students who may be dealing with ACEs, or Adverse Childhood Experiences. While immigration or seeking asylum as a refugee are not strictly listed as ACEs, I think it&#8217;s implied that these experiences can be extremely debilitating for children. If you are the child of an illegal immigrant and worry every day that your parent may be deported, I&#8217;d definitely assume that could negatively impact the student and their future.<\/p>\n<p>My hope through the Now, Wow, How project is to better research how ACEs relate to immigration and refugees so that I can try my best as a teacher to help students overcome them. ACEs can be &#8220;reversed&#8221; (I put this in quotations because can you ever truly reverse something devastating that happened to you?) through the help of strong, warm, understanding mentors and stable, safe, consistency provided by a caring adult. My hope is to create a training program or professional development plan that could help teachers better understand and support their students struggling with migration related ACEs.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone wants to read up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/violenceprevention\/childabuseandneglect\/acestudy\/index.html\">ACEs<\/a>, I&#8217;ve got a few reputable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjustice.org\/publications\/the-ace-of-ice-how-current-immigration-enforcement-and-deportation-hurts-children\/\">links<\/a> here with more information related to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about mental health and how it relates to immigration and refugees for this class. One of the concepts I keep coming back to is toxic stress and its relationship with school achievement. If a student is under immense stress from family or unsafe home situations, it&#8217;s not feasible for them<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore-p\"><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/06\/27\/aces-and-toxic-stress-how-do-they-relate-to-school-achievement\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1done"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}