IMPACT: Trauma -Informed Approaches for Engaging Youth

by Coffy Davis

Trauma-Informed Approaches for Engaging Youth provides practical guidance for working with youth that have experienced trauma. Trauma occurs more than we think. Two-thirds of children report experiencing one traumatic event by the age of 16. This book invites educators, activist, artist, health care professionals, community organizers, advocates, and any adult worker in a variety of community sectors to consider the impact that trauma has on the young people we serve and how we, as a community, can best support them. This book is for anyone who makes it their business to invest in the youth in a way that enhances their socioemotional wellbeing. It's a toolkit that equips service providers with resources to support youth's whole self and bridge the gap between traditional advocacy and mental health. A trauma-Informed approach is a journey of intentional healing.
This book describes how we can deepen our capacity to create more efficient, safe environments for our youth and our staff to learn together.
It is a conversation piece meant to facilitate relationship building, strategic planning and implementation of techniques that support our young.

125 pages, Paperback

Published January 3, 2023

About the author

Coffy Davis resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has an English Degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2004 she became a trailblazer and created the Underground Railroad Neighborhood project (TURN project) an initiative that bridged art and literacy with at-risk communities. She is a Spoken Word artist that competed and won in various local and national slams as a solo artist as well as a founding member of the local troupe, Foreign Tongues. She was the Assistant Editor for the Localist magazine which fused Hip Hop and Punk Rock music and was subsequently sought after to instruct a Hip Hop after school program that used the genre as a vessel to teach life skills-- a program that was featured on CNN’s Black in America. She hosted The Urban Hang Suite KABF radio and sat as the Vice president for the Arkansas Community Arts co-op for three years. She has won the Senator Pryor Award for Community Service (2009), the Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship Award (2017) and the Nan Snow Emerging Artist Award (2018.)