Every year, millions of children in the United States are victimized by severe abuse. This maltreatment takes many forms, but all have this in common: they rob children of some percentage of their potential, some vital human piece of themselves. And by such robbery, all America is looted. The problem has been documented to the point of nausea. The media dutifully reports the body counts, but the one-sided war rages on. Domestic violence, sexual exploitation, rape, sociopathic plundering, homicide... we are under siege even as our "protective" institutions rot from within.
We know the root cause of our societal ills and evil - the transgenerational maltreatment of children. We know today’s victim can be tomorrow’s predator. We know that while many heroic survivors refuse to imitate the oppressor, the chains remain unbroken as abused children turn the trauma inward and lose their souls to self-inflicted wounds... from drug and alcohol abuse to depression and suicide. Their lives are never what they could have... should have been.
We know the enemy... but where is the counter-attack? More social engineering? More pious whining? More networking? More conferences? More unfocused, blundering incompetence? There is a Rosetta Stone to societal decay. Child abuse, simply, modifies development of the brain. It alters "processing", so that the abused child (of whatever age) assimilates and responds to stimuli in distinctly aberrant ways. Most of those ways are self- destructive. Some destroy others. All destroy us as a country.
The ChildTrauma Academy
The ChildTrauma Academy is a
not-for-profit organization based in
Houston, Texas
focused on education, service delivery and program
consultation in the areas of child
maltreatment.
The mission of the Academy is
to help improve the lives of traumatized
and maltreated children. We
endeavor to
improve
the systems that educate, nurture, protect and enrich
these children - through education,
service delivery and program
consultation. We work to improve
individual lives through clinical
assessment and treatment.
Essential to this process is the collaboration of all sectors of society. As such, we engage in a continuous process of identifying key partners, drawn from academia, the corporate world, private organizations and public sector systems. While each partnership has a distinct focus-- identifying best practices in child protection, evaluating the latest research in child development, defining optimal ways to provide resources to parents or creating a novel therapeutic approach with traumatized children-- all are engaged in the continuous process of testing, refining and distributing innovations that can improve the lives of children.*
For more
information about
The ChildTrauma Academy visit
www.ChildTrauma.org
