Dr. Lonna Housman-Moline

Dr. Lonna Housman-Moline

General/SPED educator for 33+ years; DEBH Past-President; University of St. Thomas (MN)

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Lessons Learned

•  Develop a trusting relationship with the students
• Critical to be aware of signs of maltreatment and reporting them. Feel comfortable with reporting even suspicions-you don’t need to be the one making the final decision but so important to make the call
• Use wellness/resiliency strategies that empower (students/teachers/self). For example: self-compassion, self-expression, exercise, art, reframing, guided meditation, rest/sleep, peer support groups
• Be aware of your own triggers

Resources Developed

• Looking Through a Trauma Sensitive Lens

Suggested Resources

• Fostering Resilient Learners :Strategies for Creating Trauma Sensitive Classroom, Kristin Souers
• Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma Invested Practices, Souers and Hall
• The Deepest Well: Healing Long-term Effects of Childhood Trauma, Nadine Burke Harris
• The Body Keep the Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk
• Building a Trauma-Informed Compassionate Classroom, Jennifer Bashant
• Thomas Hubl Teacher & Author
• Why You Feel Lost in Life: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma & How to Heal
• Trauma Super Conferences (online)

Collaborative Areas of Interest

• Guiding/supporting educational staff who work with youth who have experienced, are experiencing, or are at risk for trauma
• Working with staff experiencing secondary trauma
• Implementation of evidence-based wellness strategies