Former Prostitute Works To Keep Women Off The Streets (16 min podcast)

Chris Engel 8/27/137:15 PM

"Kathryn Griffin-Townsend is a recovering drug addict and former sex worker who founded “We’ve Been There Done That,” a nonprofit that helps women in jail to stay away from a life on the street....

GRIFFIN-TOWNSEND: So you see why the trauma - there's so much deep trauma that we - I have to go in and break through.

YOUNG: But you're not a trained psychologist. You're not a doctor.

GRIFFIN-TOWNSEND: I have a trained psychologist on staff, and I am certified in peer-to-peer. My doctorate degree of street ecology, that the experience, you can't learn what any of these survivors or victims have gone through in a book...."

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/15/former-prostitute-program

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