POWERFUL, FIRST-EVER FEDERAL HEARING ON “IDENTIFYING, PREVENTING AND TREATING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA”
Riveting and emotional: The full, first-ever Congressional hearing on “Identifying, Preventing and Treating Childhood Trauma” by the Oversight Committee chaired by Representative Elijah Cummings. Across the hearing, the story of developmental trauma is well conveyed and powerful.
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The magnitude and the priority of addressing developmental trauma were clear. A few highlights are shared below and the full video is linked here.
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The video can be viewed in sections for time management.
Two different panels provide testimony. The first panel (less than an hour) comprised of only four members, each trauma-impacted, who speak for less than ten minutes each. The second panel members are professional experts in several different areas of trauma science, data, and application.
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Representative Elijah Cummings, the Chairman, begins with a sentence by Robin Williams, from the movie Goodwill Hunting, “It’s not your fault”. (starting at 0:15:50 on the video timer).
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Later Chairman Cummings shares some of his own specific struggle in the educational system, where he was mis-classified into Special Education for his elementary school years, a fate too frequent for “troubled [trauma-impacted] youth”.
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Representative Cummings communicates explicitly and very CONTINUE READING: Powerful, First-Ever Federal Hearing on “Identifying, Preventing and Treating Childhood Trauma” | LucidWitness.com