SDAntoNia’s Reviews > Invisible Children > Status Update

"Call, write, and visit your government officials and educators and share your insights. Let them know there are better answers. Stand up and tell them it is time to invest in the lives of poor and abandoned children.
Work in your community to reach out and help Invisible Children live among us as productive and healthy citizens.
Visit our website:
www.invisiblechildren.org
..."

"What’s missing for abused children are those things the
rest of us have in abundance and can well afford to give
away—kindness, trust, and a humane approach to solving
problems. We are not short of the economic resources to make
these changes."

not easy reading, but essential reading...

"secure change for abused and neglected children today...
Seniors ... got their own results.
Unlike the seniors, these children cannot speak for themselves."
ShiraDest
25 November, 12015 HE

"Many sources show the value of mentoring and Head Start programs. Mentored youth are 46 percent less likely to use drugs, 27 percent less likely to use liquor, and 33 percent less likely to hit someone. Head Start statistics show 33 percent less juvenile arrest rate, 41 percent less violent crime rate, and a higher high school graduation rate."

But how to get lack of providers addressed?
"there are about fifty child psychiatrists in the state of Minnesota. Not nearly enough"
ShiraDest
12015 HE

funding long-term therapy saves money: "Getting children to simply feel “normal” can save a great deal of human suffering and expense to the state."
ShiraDest 7Nov.
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"It’s not just the money that we should be concerned with, it’s the destroyed lives, unsafe streets, and a reputation as a society that throws away children."
Exactly...

ShiraDest

in the year 12015 HE

"Concentration is not a skill owned by any of the abused and
neglected children I have known. Hyper-vigilant to his surroundings, untrusting, always seeking, unable to breathe deeply and relax even for a minute"
-yup: 'distracted' and 'need to learn to relax' even as an adult. Now I know why. We need to prevent this from harming other children.

"United States is the only nation in the world to
build prisons based on failed third grade reading
scores (Arizona and California; David Strand, Nation
out of Step, p. 93"

WHAT???!!!