Reading and understanding a young person’s barriers can be useful in responding to their needs and providing a healing community.

Discussions about trauma histories should be discussed in private where no one can overhear.

A student shares a piece of their trauma history with you. You should let the student know that you will share the info with the other Youth Development Professional assigned to them.

You are in the main office when a DCF worker comes in to request a young person’s report card. You know from the trauma history and from discussions with the YDP that the student has a DCF worker. It is ok to release the young person’s report card.

If a young person does not share their trauma history with you directly but you know about it, you should bring up the information with the young person at a mutually convenient time.

Hearing traumatic stories can be stressful to staff. An important piece of self-care is to process the trauma histories with one another outside of work at social events.

Since we value the use of trauma histories to inform interventions at Domus, every single person that works here should have every piece of information.

It is ok to share barrier information including medical info with other youth and families if the information may impact them.

Youth and families have the right to informed consent. If they choose to share some of their adverse experiences, they should be informed of who that information will be shared with.

If a young person’s behavior is frustrating in class, the YDP should reference their specific barriers to all of their teachers.