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Upstate Cerebral Palsy, in collaboration with the Herkimer County Department of Mental Health and the Herkimer County Youth Violence Prevention Committee will host a showing of the documentary film Paper Tigers on Thursday, May 26, 2016 at Herkimer College.
Paper Tigers, One High School’s Unlikely Success Story, is an intimate look into the lives of students at Lincoln High School, an alternative high school that specializes in educating traumatized youth. The film examines what trauma informed schools and communities can do to help youth struggling with the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). ACE includes verbal, physical or sexual abuse, as well as family dysfunction. The Centers for Disease Control conducted the ACE Study, one of the largest investigations ever to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being.
Registration information and additional presentation details will be available shortly.
