Experience Hope for Teens is a school-based intervention that aims to prevent and reduce trauma-related behavior problems for African American students by increasing their access to trauma-informed services, increasing school capacity to respond in a non-punitive, healing-focused and restorative manner to trauma-related behavior, and decreasing students’ trauma symptoms, such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, dissociation, internalizing, externalizing, and complicated grief reactions. This Community Defined Evidence Program (CDEP) is designed to create culturally-responsive places of healing in the African American community.
