We’re approaching the end of the first season of Walls Plus One, but we still have two very big topics left to discuss.

This episode is devoted to education. There’s no better person to speak on this topic than Adonica Pelichet Duggan. She is the Chief Executive Officer at Baton Rouge Alliance for Students, a nonprofit organization devoted to ensuring that students are at the forefront of school improvement decisions. 

During our discussion with Toni Bankston, we learned the ways that trauma and stress can impact the youngest members of our community. Poverty creates situations of trauma that make the complexities of providing a quality education even more difficult. 

In this episode, Adonica really brings home that all of the things we have talked about this entire season are connected to the challenges for the education system. Essentially, we cannot continue to address these things individually. Rather, we need more wraparound services.

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