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Building Safe, Caring, and Trauma-Sensitive Schools

This partnership supports staff from Marshall County Schools to create trauma-sensitive classrooms and schools. Specifically, REL Appalachia staff are collaborating with partners from Marshall County Schools and the West Kentucky Educational Cooperative to design and deliver a four-part training series on evidence-based, trauma-sensitive practices and supporting district mental health counselors as they help school-based trauma teams apply the practices introduced in the trainings. These activities will contribute to the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes described in the partnership logic model below.

Current Projects

REL staff are supporting district and school staff in Marshall County, Kentucky to leverage existing evidence-based, trauma-sensitive practices and to help staff implement these practices in their everyday interactions with their students to respond sensitively to student and educator trauma. REL staff are providing the district with a recorded trauma-sensitive training that meets the annual training requirements of Kentucky’s School Safety and Resiliency Act and provides teachers with more concrete trauma-sensitive practices they can implement in their classrooms.

No completed projects at this time.

Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: April 2023
The four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series was designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. The training and coaching meeting materials associated...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: March 2023
The four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series was designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. The training and coaching meeting materials associated...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: February 2023
The four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series was designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. The training and coaching meeting materials associated...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date: November 30, 2022
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs), and you’ve seen invitations to partner and connect, but you aren’t sure what that might entail. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how REL Appalachia joins forces with...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: November 2022
The four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series was designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. The training and coaching meeting materials associated...
Event Type: In-person Event | Event Date: October 20, 2022 - October 21, 2022
Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin Description: During this session at the National Rural Education Association (NREA) 2022 National Forum to Advance Rural Education, Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Appalachia staff shared resources and strategies to...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date: August 03, 2022
As the director of REL Appalachia, I regularly learn about some of the most pressing educational challenges in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date: April 04, 2022
Practical resources to support early learners’ transitions to school

REL Appalachia Logic Model (168 KB)

REL Appalachia Logic Model