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Apr42024

Education in 2024 – Educating At Risk Children (what tomorrow looks like)

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection, COVID 19 and its Impacts, Education, Reporting and News - US Based

This is a synopsis of Education Week’s last 12 months of reporting on conditions in American schools today with attention to educating abused and neglected children. It’s a deep dive into  what it means to be a teacher in America today.

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Jan262024

What’s It Like For Troubled Teens Where You Live?

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection, Juvenile + Criminal Justice, Reporting and News - MN Specific

What’s it like to be a CASA guardian ad Litem (child protection worker) unable to find safe housing and mental health services for the 14-year-old struggling foster boy in your caseload? This child’s self-harming and violent behaviors could change if there was help to manage behaviors triggered by childhood traumas. These children can go on…

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Jan232024

“Authority” & Child Abuse (why teachers quit & children go to jail)

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Growing up in a home beaten, raped or starved by the most important authority in your life, means that for you, authority is not to be respected – it is to be hated and feared. Real life stories about this  here.

Uncooperative often violent response to authority figures is normal for traumatized children. It’s driven by repeated pain and terror visited upon a child that has been unable to escape repeated trauma and abuse.

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Dec292023

Child Suicide – What’s Not Said

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Repeated childhood trauma does cruel things to children. Things that never go away. Those things (behaviors/thoughts/self-harm/suicide) can be managed with help. Without help, depression, pain and sadness often become overwhelming. 

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