Inan essay, you will explore and analyze how black, indigenous, and people ofcolor (BIPOC) or, a specific racial/cultural subgroup of children andadolescents are likely to be impacted by a race- and/or culturally-based eventor situation in our current U.S. society.
To develop your essay, please do thefollowing:
1. Choose an issue, event, or situation that can lead to racial stress or trauma for a child or adolescent of color. For example, you may focus on the killing of unarmed Black people by police, family separation or forced deportations of immigrants or refugees as a result of U.S. immigration policies and practices or experiencing racial microaggressions in schools.
2. Describe how you think these experiences could be perceived by a child or teen. Consider both the experience of those who are directly involved in these events/situations (i.e., a child who is in an immigration detention center or who has been the target of racial aggression) AND the experiences of those who have witnessed such events either in person or through media exposure.
3. Drawing onand referring to the information in the below listedlinks, provide an analysis of how a child or teen could be impacted by theevents/situations you describe. How might a child perceive or understand thesituation? What might make the experience of trauma better or worse for thechild? And what stress or trauma symptoms might the child have?
4. Finally, apply what you have learned about how parents and professionals can help children cope with trauma to this situation. What can adults do, formally and informally, to support children and teens who experience the kind of racial stress or trauma that you have been discussing in your essay?
