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All Adults Are The Protectors of All Children
The issues (the danger) of working in a job serving severely traumatized people are hard to comprehend for most of us.
This article from the ACEs Too High website provides an everyday guide with must know information. With too many children not being afforded an escape to the safety of a classroom because of the Covid19 virus, there will be a growing danger as substantially more badly abused children fill our classrooms and foster homes in the fall (or winter or spring) of next year. This is powerful information and worth sharing with friends engaged with at risk children.
When you’re working with people who’ve had a lot of childhood and adult adversity, it’s hard for you to believe that anyone else can have a bad day, says Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. “Your neighbor or your best friend says: ‘I’ve had a bad day.’ And you think, ‘Oh, I’m sorry you had a bad day; were you sex trafficked today? No, you were not!’”
