It’s not just first responders who are feeling compassion fatigue, it’s happening to teachers and school counselors who are struggling with distance learning. Absorbing the fear and trauma of those they serve is a reality for front line workers – and now for educators, too. Distance learning has caused some teachers and counselors to experience […]
We know that 200,000 teen girls give birth every year in the U.S., but what about the other half of the equation – the 200,000 fathers? Unfortunately, only about 33 percent of fathers under 18 stick around to help raise the child. When you consider that 70% of those teen moms don’t graduate – it’s […]
Every year, 25,000 teens give birth in California – and 70 percent of teen moms don’t graduate high school. About 1,300 of Learn4Life students are pregnant or parenting, so we are doing everything we can to keep these young mothers engaged in school and learning parenting skills – even during remote learning. Before COVID-19 […]
Home life was a toxic environment for Ethan, with his parents constantly yelling and fighting. Then because of their drug abuse, he and his little brother were placed in the foster care system. Unfortunately, there wasn’t an available family who could take them both, so they were separated. This was traumatizing for Ethan and something […]
Every teacher in every school has students who have experienced or are living with trauma in their lives – and many recognize that the trauma may be escalating with school closures. Just because we’re not in the same room as our students, we still need to support their social-emotional health and help them cope […]
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One of the great qualities of Learn4Life is the high level of in-person, student-to-adult bonding that consistently creates student persistence and success. Thanks to our flexible model, we were able to quickly transition from site-based learning to remote instruction for more than 23,000 students and their teachers, counselors and tutors. But, as educators delve […]
As a non-verbal autistic, John found that traditional high schools were not willing to accommodate his needs for success. He and his mom found Learn4Life – and that’s where he found his voice. When John’s mother was told by a respected university neurology specialist that her son was severely mentally retarded, she didn’t believe it […]
Education has been turned upside down in recent weeks and we should never go back to the way things were before. Let’s look at this as a helpful interruption to inadequate policies and practices that have been largely unchallenged. Policies that have been harmful to disadvantaged students and their families. We have had needed changes […]
When she thinks about her childhood, there are no fond memories for Angelina. Her home environment was unstable, sometimes there was no food in the house or electricity. Her family was homeless for two months, living in motels, and the stress on the family emerged in yelling and violence. As a shy child, she recalls […]