The Prevention and Youth Services Department is sponsoring two lunch screenings of the movie Paper Tigers.
June 7
Klickitat Room
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
OR June 15
Clark/Pacific Room
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
More Information on Paper Tigers & ESD Viewings…
The Prevention and Youth Services Department is sponsoring two screenings of the movie Paper Tigers. The movie is one hour and 40 minutes long, and we will allow another 20 minutes for discussion.
If you are not familiar with the film, it reviews the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) study and how childhood trauma affects students. More than two decades ago, the game-changing Adverse Childhood Experiences Study was published. It revealed a troubling but irrefutable phenomenon: the more traumatic experiences the respondents had as children (such as physical and emotional abuse and neglect), the more likely they were to develop health problems later in life—problems such as cancer, heart disease, and high blood pressure. To complicate matters, there was also a troubling correlation between adverse childhood experiences and prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse, unprotected sex, and poor diet. Combined, the results of the study painted a staggering portrait of the price our children are paying for growing up in unsafe environments. However, this very same study contains the seed of hope: all of the above-mentioned risk factors—behavioral as well as physiological—can be offset by the presence of one dependable and caring adult. It doesn’t need to be the mother or the father. It doesn’t even need to be a close or distant relative. More often than not, that stable, caring adult is a teacher.
Set within and around the campus of Lincoln Alternative High School in Walla Walla, Washington, Paper Tigers asks the following questions: What does it mean to be a trauma-informed school? And how do you educate teens whose childhood experiences have left them with a brain and body ill-suited to learn?
The June 7 screening will be in the Klickitat Room with a capacity for 24. The June 15 screening will be in Clark/Pacific, with room for 48. This will require attendees use their one hour lunch and one hour of approved program time to attend and learn. Once your attendance is approved by your supervisor, please sign up by emailing Nicole Calvert nicole.calvert@esd112.org. If we fill up these two sessions, we will schedule more viewings.
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