One of the most significant challenges facing students is the high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). While an epic number face abuse, neglect, or household challenges, many multilingual learners and their families face unique disruptions, including living in war zones, experiencing persecution, undertaking perilous journeys to perceived safety, family separation, chronic fear of deportation, and homelessness. Despite extensive resources for counselors addressing trauma, there is a noticeable gap for educators working with multilingual learners experiencing ACEs. This session will address this gap by presenting evidence-based strategies and examples of instructional and school-wide practices. It focuses on recognizing and leveraging students' strengths to create a supportive, responsive, and empowering educational environment. Overarching Learning Objectives: Understanding Strengths-Based Empowerment Practices Collaboratively examine the urgency and essential elements of responsive strengths-based empowerment approaches in educational settings. Application to Communities Explore how strengths-based, responsive empowerment practices can be effectively applied to support students, families, schools, and local communities. Instructional Strategies Investigate evidence-based instructional strategies to create strengths-based, empowering classroom and school environments that empower multilingual learners with adverse childhood experiences.