HEARTS

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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 against) · 1 study (1 quant-synthesis), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A whole-school, trauma-informed programme developed by the University of California, San Francisco and implemented in San Francisco Unified School District schools through tiered supports, staff training, consultation, and student interventions.

Components

• HEARTS whole-school trauma-informed program in San Francisco elementary schools: The Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS) program is "a whole‐school program developed by the University of California, San Francisco to promote school success for students who have been impacted by trauma," implemented in K-8th grade schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. It used the response-to-intervention three-tier framework of universal, selected, and targeted interventions with supports at system, adult (teacher/staff), and student levels, including policy changes, staff training and consultation on trauma-sensitive practices, and evidence-informed trauma-informed interventions. (Maynard BR et al. (2019))

Claims

• No rigorous evaluations of trauma-informed approaches in schools met inclusion criteria in a comprehensive systematic review search [-W]
• Trauma exposure is widespread among school students and is associated with adverse cognitive, academic, behavioral, and socioemotional outcomes [+W]

Related Products and Programmes

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Key Sources

• Maynard BR, Farina A, Dell NA, Kelly MS. (2019). Effects of trauma‐informed approaches in schools: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1018

Page metadata

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title	HEARTS
description	A whole-school, trauma-informed programme developed by the University of California, San Francisco and implemented in San Francisco Unified School District schools through tiered supports, staff training, consultation, and student interventions.
status	review
moved_from	element/hearts-whole-school-program
product_kind	programme
generated	by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — maynard-br-2019

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