I have been thinking a lot about resilience and how we can help foster resilience in our communities. I am particularly aware of the need…
I talk all the time, yes relentlessly, about ACEs and trauma. I have a difficult time when I try to explain the science behind the…
I was speaking to a parent recently about her adult child who has addiction issues. The young woman is labeled by friends, family and of…
I saw this morning, a posting about the need for foster parents and the numbers of children needing foster care outnumbering available placements. I couldn’t…
Continuing on the theme of “if only we knew then, what we know now”…I realize that we have learned so much about trauma, what it…
This was written by a foster parent and appeared on a blog. It is titled “What I Know Now, That I Wish I Knew Then”.…
I am blogging on a new platform; well, new to me. Our very own website for the Institute for Community and Family Resilience. And since…
In the many months since I have blogged, I have not been idle…I have used my Facebook page: Challenging Children to write. Sometimes, I realize that…
I realized that it has been several months since I have blogged. I find myself writing on the facebook page, Challenging Children much more regularly.…
poem by Daniel Hughes, Clinical Psychologist, continued from facebook page: Challenging Children …in that moment his soulis seen with awe and joyand he becomes warm…