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The Institute for Trauma, Adversity, and Resilience in Higher Education

Recognizing and naming how trauma and adversity impact the adult learner generates a critical brain-based perspective and lens through which the college builds upon skills of resilience to orient pedagogy, support services, and holistic institutional practices encouraging academic access and success for all students.

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Mission & Goals

Mission

Promote understanding in higher education and the larger community of the profound impact trauma and adversity have on the learning brain and academic resilience in higher education, as well as how a strengths based, trauma-informed campus and community can productively support development of critical importance to academic and workplace success.

Goals
  1. Ongoing research and writing regarding trauma-informed educational issues and practices in higher education with a particular focus on community colleges. 
  2. Serve as a resource for Trauma-Informed Higher Education with a special focus on community colleges. 
  3. Develop a digital community site that provides resources and networking information by means of literature, research, events, lectures, publications, conferences, and continuing education regarding trauma-informed educational practices, neurobiological insights relevant to higher education, as well as resilience in academia and the workplace.

Contact

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Please contact Dr. Jeanie Tietjen at jtietjen@massbay.edu or 781.239.2203 for more information including resources, speaking engagements, exploring collaboration, or funding opportunities.

Institute website including curated resources relevant to trauma-informed higher ed:

https://traumainstitutehighered.org →

Understanding Trauma-Informed Higher Education