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Everything Felt Like Nothing – I ran from my feelings and I didn’t know how...

When you spend too much time as a kid in survival mode—feeling like you have no one to rely on and blocking out the pain whatever ways you can—sometimes you don’t realize in time that you have to...

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Fight and Flight – Will my family ever be safe from child welfare’s reach?

I became pregnant at 18. I was living in Champaign, Illinois, under state custody. I was a runaway from a transitional living placement and had met the man of my dreams. We were in love and so happy to...

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Do No Harm – Trauma-focused courts address the roots of foster care placement.

Since 2010, the Chautauqua County Family Court in upstate New York has worked to become a “trauma-informed court.” Here, Judge Judith Claire and Aimee Neri, a licensed social worker who is the New York...

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On My Own Terms – I needed to feel safe and in control to face my past.

For the most part, my childhood is a blur, but I remember being about 7 and my uncle feeling on my backside when I was asleep. That’s when my hell began. At the time, I lived with my uncle and my mom,...

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Dreaming Again – Parenting Journey, therapy and writing are helping me...

Being raised in foster care and my daughters ending up there used to seem like an unbreakable cycle. I had feelings of being stuck in the past. The abuse I encountered at home and in foster care left...

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‘I Was Her Little Flower That Was Blossoming’ – Mentors and peers helped me...

“Girl, you better stop crying,” my grandmother said. I was young. Holding tears back was hard. My throat closed up and my head began to spin. My grandmother was a warrior. She was my soldier. When I...

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Awakening to Magic – In addition to services, times of joy, connection and...

Magic really does exist. Magic is when you hear music that makes you laugh or cry; you feel it deep within your soul. Magic is also when you read a book that makes you feel like you can go anywhere and...

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Laying the Past to Rest – Calming your body’s sensations can help to heal...

Bessel Van Der Kolk, medical director of the Justice Treatment Institute’s Trauma Center in Massachusetts and renowned trauma treatment researcher and specialist, talks about ways to recover from...

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‘I Want to Feel Safe but I’m Scared’ – I’m searching for a therapist who can...

I’ve been diagnosed with Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). When I was little, my mother hit and kicked me all the time. My step-dad abused me. I’ve been raped multiple times. The last...

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Being There for Baby—and Yourself: A new report focuses on supporting teen...

Recently I had a chance to read the report “Expectant & Parenting Youth in Foster Care: Addressing their developmental needs to promote healthy parent and child outcomes” by Charlyn Harper Browne...

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Signing Away My Son – I had to give up my rights because I’m incarcerated

I came to court that morning with my heart and my mind racing in time with one another. I was handcuffed as we traveled from the bowels of Bronx criminal court, arriving at a phone booth-sized room...

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Triggered – It’s hard to protect my daughter when I’m just learning to...

In my family, chemical dependency and physical abuse were the tools we used to survive. That way of coping has been going strong in my family for decades. The result for my siblings and me was that we...

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Fight and Flight – Will my family ever be safe from child welfare’s reach?

I became pregnant at 18. I was living in Champaign, Illinois, under state custody. I was a runaway from a transitional living placement and had met the man of my dreams. We were in love and so happy to...

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Noticing Trauma in Visits – How caseworkers can respond to signs of possible...

Interview by Nancy Fortunato, Jeanette Vega and Robbyne Wiley  Glenn Saxe, a developer of Trauma Systems Therapy and professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, explains how...

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Life Support — After years of chaos, I’m moving forward with the right help

When my oldest daughter went into foster care five years ago, I was 20 and struggling. I’d signed myself out of foster care two years earlier and had been bouncing between youth shelters and my mom’s...

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No Escape – The system failed me as a child but now it won’t leave me alone

As a child I cried out for help to child protective services. But the system didn’t help me when I was a child, and it hasn’t helped me as a parent. Almost as soon as my older son was born, child...

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How to Plan and Stay Calm Despite Stress

Interview with Kiran Malpe, clinical director of the Strong Starts Court Initiative in NYC Planning is really important during stressful times, and there’s a part of our brain that plans, organizes...

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