{"id":33408,"date":"2019-12-19T08:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=33408"},"modified":"2019-12-19T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:37:00","slug":"sappey-bestowed-foot-soldier-of-justice-award-by-naacp-for-championing-trauma-informed-education-in-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=33408","title":{"rendered":"Sappey bestowed Foot Soldier of Justice Award by NAACP for championing trauma-informed education in PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10783\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sappey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10783\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10783\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sappey-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Christina Sappey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>State Rep. Christina Sappey (D-158) received the prestigious Foot Soldier for Justice Award from the NAACP Media Area Branch on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sappey was chosen for her demonstrated commitment to children\u2019s education throughout Pennsylvania. In July, Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation to implement trauma-informed education in schools throughout the commonwealth, largely thanks to a bill authored by Sappey.<\/p>\n<p>Sappey introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billInfo\/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&amp;sInd=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=1415\">H.B. 1415<\/a> to train teachers and administrators to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma and how to formulate education-based policies, procedures and practices through trauma-informed approaches. During the budget process in June, Sappey\u2019s bill was incorporated into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billInfo\/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&amp;sInd=0&amp;body=S&amp;type=B&amp;bn=144\">S.B. 144<\/a>, which is now law.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery child deserves a fair chance to succeed in the classroom,\u201d Sappey said. \u201cThe passage of this legislation was certainly a triumph for our education system and all of Pennsylvania\u2019s students coping with Adverse Childhood Experiences. I am so grateful for the positive response this bill has received, and I am honored to accept the Foot Soldier for Justice Award. I am committed to continuing my fight for students across the commonwealth and advocating for children who have experienced trauma. A trauma-informed approach in education now will ultimately give us a healthier adult population in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More information on the award or trauma-informed education can be obtained by emailing <a href=\"mailto:Re*******@*****se.net\" data-original-string=\"jfXagYylHDNVWc+nIFA7+w==750mSKHrriiW\/KNxRsCdC6XLPmaeUxkVYTS9HjsK2NP5XQ=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='+XUFZuUKt1nJsbqhS6wwSA==750xXr36gNifKK0wMIpfYMLQYQI4nRmYt9Hll54NADqL6E='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>Re<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*****<\/span>se.net<\/span><\/a> or calling her office at (484) 200-8264.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Christina Sappey (D-158) received the prestigious Foot Soldier for Justice Award from the NAACP Media Area Branch on Saturday. Sappey was chosen for her demonstrated commitment to children\u2019s education throughout Pennsylvania. In July, Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation to implement trauma-informed education in schools throughout the commonwealth, largely thanks to a bill authored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[439,11243,10695],"class_list":["post-33408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-christina-sappey","tag-naacp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33409,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions\/33409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}