That's a very good question. I could feel Mr. Joseph's shame. I could feel my body—and I get it. I understand.
Times have changed a lot. We really need to pay attention to our children and what they're doing. Cellphones are having an even larger impact, because we didn't have them when I was a kid.
It's not even about not letting our kids and youth go unsupervised, but about knowing where they are. I had free rein. I ended up at an older gentleman's house. He fed me alcohol. The access to it was huge. I blacked out, and when I woke up, I was being sexually assaulted.
Prevention is everything. What we need, and I think it's a big part of the focus being missed, is the lived experience piece. We have something that can't be taught. Unfortunately, a lot of us have that due to the trauma we went through, but I would rather there be fewer people with lived experience in the next 10 years who had to go through what I, Jason and so many other people went through just to be able to help.
We have to break the cycle. That's what it's about. It's about breaking the cycle—lived experience, mentors, peer support, supportive housing and all of that.
It starts at school. Some of the stuff they're introducing at school I don't think is correct. It wasn't there when I was young, so why is it there now? We had it hard enough at our age.