Episode 27: Guy Stephens - Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast

Guy is the Founder and Executive Director for the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint (AASR). Restraint and seclusion are outdated crisis management techniques used in schools across the nation. These interventions disproportionately impact disabled and minority children. The practices are dangerous and can lead to significant trauma and injuries to students, teachers, and staff. AASR's mission is to educate the public and connect people who are dedicated to changing minds, laws, policies, and practices so that restraint and seclusion are reduced and eliminated from schools across the nation. AASR believes that our schools should be moving towards neurodevelopmentally informed, trauma-sensitive, biologically respectful, relationship-based ways of understanding, and supporting all students. Guy believes that we can do better for all children, and if we can we must.