Toxic stress at home is making its way into the classroom. Learn how adverse childhood experiences are impacting students — and how educators can help them cope.

Here, we explore how school counselors can work with speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and mental health counselors to help multicultural students thrive.

Although juvenile arrests in the U.S. have decreased over the past few decades, arrests for girls younger than 18 are up. To reverse this trend, intervention programs must be tailored to the gender-specific needs of girls who enter the criminal justice system for different reasons than young boys.

At a time when headlines reflect a gathering momentum over hate and bias, how are teachers confronting what’s behind those headlines?  School districts may be failing to address racism head-on.

“When you think about how societal systems are set up in this country to help people (i.e., healthcare, criminal justice, education, housing, workforce systems, etc.), you will notice they are really designed to help a certain group of people,” says trauma grief and loss counselor Babe Kawaii-Bogue. In a field dominated by white clinicians and practitioners, how can Black Americans feel understood when seeking mental health care?

Some Asian students see only one path forward—the best grades, the highest honors— to get into the most elite colleges, where the whole process starts all over again. That path can lead to worries over school and family expectations.