Watch for forthcoming piece with strategies for improving how schools and colleges handle trauma that students experience.  Concrete suggestions are provided. Key here is that traumatic experiences are an equal opportunity offender -- sadly.  While small t trauma is more prevalent in low income families, higher income households can have toxic stress, abuse and trauma too.  And Big T trauma such as that caused by person-made and nature-made disasters is an equal opportunity destroyer. The key: our brains are remarkably plastic and recovery is possible --- the key here is to move forward focusing on brain strengths not weaknesses, recognizing that one is forever changed. Resiliency is about bouncing back -- there is no back. There is only forward. …see more