Health committee  There's the big-T trauma and the small-t trauma. Every child we have had has had some form of trauma, and a lot of it often comes through the mis-recognition that is occurring within their communities, within the family, of not being seen and not being held. There are these under

Health committee  It's mis-recognition. It's not seeing accurately what's going on. It's trying to address the symptom rather than the underlying issue.

Health committee  I would say it's a breakdown of the family. The kids are actually not operating from the mindset of a young adult—like you did as a high school person—but from, “what can I do to alleviate any pain and not feel?” They don't have a future orientation in mind when they're behaving.

Health committee  I can respond. Education is definitely needed. It's also educating the families and empowering the parents to parent. Oftentimes, they actually don't feel empowered to set a limit. When I go out speaking to schools, parents will just thank me at the end, saying, “Wow, you gave m

Health committee  I would just say that treatment does work. It works when you work with the family, you work within the community and you focus beyond the symptom, when you really look at the underlying yearnings that a child has. It does bring about change. They will have a life worth living.