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The Spaces That Can Ease Childhood Trauma

April 10, 2018

Mimi Kirk
Mar 29, 2018

A child draws as part of a therapy program designed to help kids deal with trauma. Hidajet Delic/AP

Children’s Advocacy Centers make sure kids only have to tell their story of abuse once.

On a recent visit to Safe Shores, a Washington, D.C., center that supports victims of child abuse, executive director Michele Booth Cole told me about a 10-year-old girl who came to the center after her father sexually abused her.

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