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Documentary is an intimate look into the lives of selected students at Lincoln High School, an alternative school in Walla Walla, Washington that specializes in educating traumatized youth. The film examines the inspiring promise of Trauma Informed Communities - a movement that is showing great promise in healing youth struggling with the dark legacy of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). Details the problems that result from exposure to chronic and adverse stress that alter brain function. These problems include truancy, violence, & abuse of drugs, alcohol, and other self-destructive behaviors that often continue the cycle of abuse and lead to physical disease. Film follows six students over the course of a school year as the school takes the new approach to dealing with discipline problems. The model was based on understanding & treatment rather than judgment and suspension. Over the course of three years, the improvement was dramatic. Fights at school had gone down by 75 percent and the graduation rate had increased five-fold. DVD includes the feature film, the Paper Tigers Toolkit (5 video segments: "What are ACEs?", "How to Connect with Students", "Around the Campfire", "Lighthouse Parenting", and "The Biology of Toxic Stress"), trailer for Resilience, Spanish subtitles & SDH English captions. | |