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Adoption Advocates Bank on a New Way to Address Childhood Trauma [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 11/15/171:44 PM

According to a coalition of adoption advocates, broader acceptance of an emerging mental health diagnosis has the potential to help traumatized children access the help they need.

That’s the goal of the End Childhood Trauma Tour, which stops in five cities this week in the name of promoting awareness of the disruptive effects of trauma on children.

The tour started in Minneapolis on Friday before stopping in Chicago. It heads to Boston tonight before moving on to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. on Tuesday and Wednesday.

[For more on this story by Jeremy Loudenback, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...ess-childhood-trauma]

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