Miss Kansas to join panel discussion on students and trauma

8/31/22

By FHSU College Communications

HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State College will host a panel dialogue on the affect of childhood trauma at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, within the Black and Golf Room within the college’s Memorial Union Constructing. 

In response to federal statistics, greater than two-thirds of youngsters within the U.S. report experiencing a traumatic occasion by age 16. Opposed childhood experiences and trauma disproportionately have an effect on rural schoolchildren, placing them at better threat of educational underachievement all through their lives. 

Miss Kansas 2022, Ayanna Hensley will be part of a panel of specialists on this subject. The daughter of oldsters who struggled with substance abuse and incarceration, Ayanna determined to make selling consciousness of the affect of trauma and connecting these affected to intervention choices the main focus of her “Social Affect Initiative” as Miss Kansas.

Dr. Sarah Lancaster, an assistant professor in Fort Hays State College’s School of Schooling and an skilled on this subject, affords this preview of the September 20 panel dialogue:

“Trauma is rather more far-reaching than some notice. Persistent stress, poverty, mother and father in jail, witnessing an act of violence or feeling threatened by one, pure disasters, medical points, and so forth., can all be trauma. The fundamental wants of all college students need to be met earlier than studying can happen. A scholar can not “examine” their private life on the door and be taught math as a result of that’s what they’re purported to be doing in school.”

Two distinguished panelists from USD 305 in Salina will be part of Ayanna and Dr. Lancaster for the dialogue, together with Dr. Curtis Stevens, director of secondary training, and Dr. Lindsey Sellers, the counseling division chair.

Additionally becoming a member of the panel shall be Rekala Tuxhorn, an teacher within the college’s Division of Social Work and an skilled Ok-12 therapist, and Amanda Brown from the FHSU Well being and Wellness Providers.  

The occasion is obtainable as a service to training and social companies professionals in our area and is open to the general public. Attendees are requested to RSVP by way of e-mail to FHSUNews@fhsu.edu.