Institutions that can actually come in and act as a beginning of a buffer for that adolescent. Talk to us a little bit about that. Sure. Well, i think in just about every setting, a child exists in there are caring adults available, or there can be caring adults available who can be a protective factor to a child and help that child access their own inner resilience. So including things like helping children realize that they can use humor, that they can develop Close Relationships with safe adults. Teaching children ways that they can be safe. Okay, if you cant bring friends home because crazy things are happening there and you cant study there how can we put something in place so that you have a safe place to go after school . If youre concerned about your siblings then how can we make sure that their needs get met . So really, i think we just need to encourage adults to not ignore signs that a child is struggling and reach out to children and to kids to say if you have one caring ad
They feel that theyre of value to their family and to the community on the whole. My goal is to be a Substance Abuse counselor because what better job could i have, could i get . Not that i say i cant work at some Corporate Place or be a porter or still, you know, whatever. But, i mean, you know, how, why could i not give away what i have. You know, i lived the life. While the impact of the Wecare Program is significant in itselfwe place over 2,000 people per year directly into employmentwe cant forget the larger economic benefit that the program has for the city. Those 2,000 people are trusted employees of local businesses. Those local businesses and those employees are returning tax dollars into the local economy. So when youre serving 50,000 people a year, when youre placing 2,000 people a year, that has a significant Economic Impact on our local communities. Where do you see yourself in a year from now . What would you say, class . Working. G. Working. Right. Working. Right. So, da
Can you tell us a little bit about which ones were using . Well, theres many different. Theres many, many different trauma screens. We used to use everything from brief trauma screens to the ace study to short screens that are used to try to not retraumatizefor example, in jailthat just may ask four or five questions. So, theres many, many trauma screens that are very good and excellent for use. And what type of questions are they, for example . Well, some questions are like, for the brief ones that we have used in prisons and jails would be are you oftentimes haunted by terrible memories . Do you often have lapses of memory that werent resulting in alcohol or drug abuse . Do you have nightmares . I mean, there are certain questions that are used that are geared towards not retraumatizing and ask people to spill out all of the traumas, but will then get people screened so they can be invited into the appropriate groups. But, in addition to the screening, i think whats so important is t
Order to even get care, and that care was segregated from the rest of healthcare. Youve heard many times about the other problems that are associated. Well, theyre literally paid for separately with a workforce thats trained differently. Now, as healthcare reform and parity roll out, people at all parts of that continuum ought to be able to get care from being screened early, as candace says, through interventions in the office of their primary care doctors to Specialty Care that they already have and beyond. I think its going to be really quite an important benefit for people that are affected, but for the rest of medicine as well, going to see better quality care and farreduced costs. And youve brought in a very good dimension in terms of how we train individuals. Obviously, if were looking for more people to adopt evidencebased practices, right, dr. Laudet . Wouldnt we really Pay Attention to how were training the new people so that to make sure that they really have all the tools t
Schoolwork, projects. So this addresses their treatment environment in a context that they are very familiar with. Jonathan, when and how should a parent first intervene . We have heard from justin and his experience. But overall, whatwe know the signs. We already talked about them. How should they intervene with a potentially problem situation . You know, tami used an important word, which was to have the conversation. I think that is crucial to begin to talk about what they see, what their concerns are and what is going on. It can be very challenging because, you know, as i think bridget and justin mentioned, adolescence is a time of experimentation. Its a time of risk taking. So, you know, one doesnt want to smother your kid or be what is referred to nowadays as a helicopter parent, which my daughter accused mebut at the same time, one needs to have that conversation and begin to address the issues and point out what your concerns are and maybe set some parameters for what you are l