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This 3 minute video for caregivers features White River School District Social Worker Carianne Sellers sharing about trauma, resilience, and connection. This pandemic has been a collective trauma for all of us; a trauma is a distressing and confusing event we don’t have control of. You may be concerned about your student’s stress and reactions. Research on Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACE’s) tells us the common thread of resilience is a loving and supportive caregiver. Spending time with our students doing something they are interested in, validating their feelings, and encouraging them when they want to give up will all help. We can all do hard things and we are not alone, take this time to strengthen relationships! Challenge: Spend some intentional quality time with your student and reach out to someone you have been missing!

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hi I'm Siri and sellers a social worker for White River and I support students and families across the district today I wanted to talk to you about this pandemic and the need for the stay-at-home order and how it has been a elective, and other words a distressing experience that we've had together so we're apart that has produced psychological and emotional responses we may have experienced the last of the job daily routine being disrupted teaching our own kids from our house this connection from others fear anxiety of what may lie ahead or even the death of a loved one during this time we also know that as a young age are children encounter the risk of developing an overactive stress response so it is no surprise that as parents many of us have major concerns for their well-being I like that the good news is that all the research about overcoming adversity childhood experiences children with resiliency are able to overcome trauma and thankfully for us same Research indicates that the common thread of resilient children is the presence of a loving and supportive parent or caregiver so what does this mean it means that play tea party with our preschooler a game of Monopoly with our older students or create an art project with our team we are working towards building resiliency when a child tells us they hate us or acts out in verbal or physical aggression we can respond by validating they're hurting this is hard and that we still love them by so doing we are working on resiliency when a child says they quit because they believe they failed at something we acknowledge how difficult it is tell them about a time we made a mistake and encourage them to keep trying when we do so we are building grits and resiliency so our kids you and I we can all do hard things and we are not alone even though many of us may be feeling lonely sad or just connected from our support systems we can maintain and possibly even strengthen our Relationships by reaching out to others during this time there are many great ways dress to do so through video conferences so distance walks or bike ride sending goodies to a left one or planning a virtual Movie game night or play date to sustain those connections so this week I encourage you to spend free time with your children and reach out to that family friend grandparent or person who your child or you have been missing and connect with them thank you so much for listening and take care

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