This agency was never built, never designed, never trained for the care and keeping of families.

We have an opportunity to save a woman's life.

What we are is delayed, and these things do all show up in some way, form, or shape in our lives.

I can say with certainty that it was a school nurse that saw the signs of trauma and abuse in my own life.

We have to work with them. We are not isolated.

It is so important--I am sorry you have to weaponize your pain in order for this survivor tribe to be seen and to be heard but it is so critical that this work be survivor led.

But it has to be sustainable and I do worry about our ability to just have systems, which have often already failed people...

I want to talk about the criminal justice system.

There is no hierarchy of hurt, and I appreciate you are pushing for us to address this in a comprehensive way.

The best gift that we can give any child is a stable adult.

Violence begets violence and trauma begets trauma, and so many families and communities like my own are passing along, unfortunately, the legacy of intergenerational trauma.

We can't do them alone and so we have to be in partnership with those in our communities and it has to be community driven how these inequities play out.