Giving Compass' Take:

• Emily Tate, writing for EdSurge, reports on the Therapeutic Interagency Preschool Program, also known as TIP, that helps young children dealing with adverse childhood experiences relating to the opioid crisis. 

• How can programs like these benefit from more funding for research and building evidence-based practices? 

• Learn how to make an impact on adverse childhood experiences. 

Today on a bonus episode of the EdSurge Podcast we’re talking about the youngest victims of the opioid crisis.

They’re preschoolers whose parents or caregivers misuse painkillers; some have become addicted to heroin or other street drugs as a result. One expert called these kids “America’s lost children.” Of course, educators haven’t given up on them. But they recognize teaching these kids brings unique challenges.

My colleague Emily Tate has spent the past couple of months exploring this subject, to produce the longform feature we published today, “Inside a Preschool That Treats the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis.”

I sat down with Emily to find out what she learned, and to go behind the story of her trip to classrooms at the heart of the opioid crisis.

EdSurge: Emily, where did you end up going for your reporting for this?

Tate: I went to Ohio [a hotspot of the opioid crisis] and visited the Therapeutic Interagency Preschool Program, also known as TIP. And TIP serves three, four and five-year-olds in Ohio who have experienced severe childhood trauma. And it helps them work through those experiences through one-on-one counseling services, a targeted social-emotional learning curriculum, and small class sizes. So there are fewer children for every teacher than is normally seen in a preschool.

Read the full article about opioid crisis by Emily Tate at EdSurge.