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De Lapp Education Vision & Mission

Vision
De Lapp Education, a nonprofit organization, was founded to support educators as they serve students within their unique community contexts. We connect communities and families to support schools in creating safe, equitable, trauma-sensitive environments with academic rigor accessible to all. We support schools as they become hubs of service provision for students and their families. The relationships formed among educators, students, and their communities empower and provide service so that schools become a source of hope in the community and a doorway to meaningful systemic change.
Mission
De Lapp Education facilitates educators' development of comprehensive policies, procedures, and practices that reflect the unique needs of their communities within an equity-directed, culturally responsive, trauma-sensitive framework.

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Jennifer De Lapp

Founder, CEO, & Curriculum Developer  
Lead Facilitator

Education and Experience

Education

The Degrees

PhD in Education, Double Specialty:  

Trauma-Informed & Special Education​​​​​

  • National University, 2020 - Present

MA Education: Special Education

  • San Jose State University, 2004

BA Psychology

  • UC Santa Cruz, 2000

AA Liberal Arts

  • De Anza College, 1997

Beyond the Degrees

Professional Qualifications

  • California Chapter of Council for Exceptional Children Webinar: Infusing Teaching Programs with Trauma-Sensitive Lenses

  • 7th Annual Women in Leadership Conference Presenter: Global Applications for Trauma-Sensitive Practices

  • National Society of Leadership and Success Member

  • Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child: Teacher Educator Institute, 2nd Year

  • VESC, Northcentral University
    Webinar Presenter: What Every Educator Needs to Know About Trauma

  • Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honor Society Member

  • National Society of Leadership and Success Member

  • Council for Exceptional Children
    Blogger: Trauma-Informed Practices: What Educators Need to Know

  • California Council on Teacher Education Spring 2022 Research Monograph, Article Published:
    Infusing Trauma-Sensitive Lenses into Teacher Preparation Programs

  • California Council on Teacher Education 2022 SPAN Conference, 
    Roundtable Presenter: Infusing Teacher Preparation Programs with Trauma-Informed Lenses

  • High School Special Education Teacher 

    • “Outstanding Performance Award” 2010

    • “Teacher of the Year” 2010

  • Mild/Moderate Credential 

  • CLAD Credential

  • SJSU Certification- Education Practices for Alternative Settings & Institutional Settings

  • Special Education Paraeducator

  • YWCA: Domestic Violence Training 

Experience

The Truth Behind the Knowledge

  • History of Multigenerational Trauma, Disorganized Attachment, Structural Dissociation, and Complex, Chronic, and Acute Trauma 

  • Removed from home at 15 into short-term mental health facilities, group homes, foster homes, and long-term residential institutions.

  • Working and living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

  • A deep and abiding responsibility to those who were lost, whose voices were forever silenced.

  • An educational, personal, and professional life spent building evidence to support and extend my instinctual work regarding effective practices for educating youth experiencing multiple levels of trauma.

  •  A deliberate broadening of my education to include research in disciplines impacting educational practice such as neurobiology, epigenetics, developmental psychology and systems theories, resilience, critical theory, cultural anthropology, and trauma research.

  • A lifetime spent furthering my education and collaborating with others to find effective, viable early education trauma prevention methods to alter the landscape of special education

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Trauma is not a disability or pathological illness.

Early intervention can prevent a child from developing either.

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