“Get the Lights On” Trauma Playbook to work with traumatized youth and families
Jamel needs help. He is part of a street gang, he sleeps in school, he’s failing his classes and he’s often absent from school. Jamel’s mom can’t pay the bills, his dad isn’t involved at all and CPS is about to remove Jamel and his siblings from the home. A therapist is assigned to assist Jamel and his family but there has been little progress in nearly a year. Jamel’s therapist developed a plan and she wanted it to work but it wasn’t. Jamel and his mother wanted the plan to work too but it...