Solutions story helps drive adoption of childhood trauma program

A 2014 New York Times story titled "Teaching Children to Calm Themselves" about Head Start Trauma Smart, which helps children address trauma, led to an expansion of the program from two to 12 states by September 2022, and a huge surge of interest. “It took me two and a half years to catch up with the waiting list of people who wanted to be contacted from that one article,” said Janine Hron, former CEO of the Crittenton Children’s Center, where the program was developed. In New York City, the Trauma Smart program has become part of the city’s mental health strategy.