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Student Traumatic Experience Recovery Toolkit
The tool-kit "How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery" is designed for schools that want to help students recover from traumatic experiences such as natural disasters, exposure to violence, abuse or assault, terrorist incidents, and war and refugee experiences. It focuses on long-term recovery, as opposed to immediate disaster response. To help schools choose an approach that suits their needs, the tool kit provides a compendium of programs for trauma recovery, classified by type of trauma (such as natural disaster or exposure to violence).
This web-based tool is a companion to the toolkit, that allows people to search the 24 programs on certain criteria (type of trauma addressed, facilitator requirements, targets of the programs, and ages served) in order to focus in on the programs that best match their needs. Developed after hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the United States in the fall of 2005, the data presented here was first used as part of a research project aimed at helping students displaced by these natural disasters. It was subsequently revised and expanded to reflect lessons learned about the kind of information schools needed most and updated to include additional programs uncovered during the research project.
This research is part of the RAND Corporation's continuing program of self-initiated research, which is supported in part by donors and the independent research and development provisions of RAND's contracts for the operation of its U.S. Department of Defense federally funded research and development centers. This research was conducted through the RAND Health Program.
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