Dr. Fletcher will focus on trauma-informed classrooms with a powerful eye towards empathy and resilience-building. She will help teachers and others, including parents, to develop trauma sensitive environments across the socioeconomic and school spectrum. She will discuss the impact trauma has on the brains of children at various ages, and boys specifically. Participants will learn practical strategies for building strong relationships and attachments with traumatized children, as well as those raised in poverty.
Dr. Fletcher will tell her own story. A product of childhood trauma, she scores a 10 on the Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACE survey. Dr. Fletcher will include information from her upcoming book, He Is Not A Gladiator, in her keynote.