Helping Foster Youth Build a Home Within: Q&A with Toni Heineman [ChronicleOfSocialChange.org]

A similar loss of Therapists may occur for Vocational Rehabilitation clients, who have limited visits. Foster Kids who enter the Vocational Rehabilitation programs in their respective states, may have similar recurring experiences of this. If I'd had a thorough assessment, the first time I applied for vocational rehab services, it might have been for naught--because PTSD was barely even formally conceptualized. But I've had the ten therapist visit limit, and also been abruptly cut off after a more-than-ten visit limit. They were EMDR certified clinicians-which "managed care companies" supposedly favor because of the "high speed" results. I was never in "Foster Care". Although I left "home" at 15, for a very liberal State Youth home-with an 11p.m. curfew on weekdays, and 1am on weekends, enrolled in a different high school,... I left there at 17, and became an "Emancipated Minor", initially "couch surfing at friends" and started working [at Kodak] 1/2 days my senior year in high school to cover my apartment rent and utilities.... I had no idea then, that I had an ACE score of at least 6. ... (If I'd used the WHO ACE International Questionaire, it would probably have been higher than 6.)