Darrell Stolle, EdD

Associate Professor, Dept. Curriculum and Instruction

Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction

G13 TRAUMA, CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS: WORKING WITHIN AN AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL FRAMEWORK

Dr. Stolle is a professor at the University of Montana and serves as the Project Director of the Montana Center for Childhood Trauma (MCCT). He possesses extensive knowledge of mental health issues that have a significant impact of American Indian students’ performance in school including bereavement, non-physical aggression, and intergenerational trauma. With over 20 years of experience as a public school teacher, counselor educator, and university professor, Dr. Stolle has mentored American Indian students from the Navajo and Hopi tribes in the four corners area, as well as with the Blackfeet, Chippewa-Cree, Salish-Kootenai, and Crow tribes in Montana. As the Project Director for MCCT, Dr. Stolle has provided education to school teachers, administrators and mental health providers on the topic of childhood traumatic stress. He has provided trainings in the CBITS intervention and has helped adapt it for use in American Indian schools.