Category: Diversity / Social & Cultural Competence, Child and Adolescent Category: Diversity / Social & Cultural Competence, Child and Adolescent (show less) Other: Wisconsin Other: Wisconsin (show less)

Social workers play a vital role in addressing children’s social and emotional reactions to trauma. We can facilitate trauma-informed, antiracist interventions in our work with children and with adults, to ensure we are building safe environments essential for healthy development. This presentation will illustrate the need for an intersectional approach to social and emotional teaching that actively addresses racism and trauma. It will introduce elements of The Body’s Story, a play-based classroom intervention developed by the presenter, that centers somatic awareness in teachings of emotions and integrates play and storytelling with a goal of enhancing internal and external resilience.