This has been a positive example of how interventions can be successful in treating children without demeaning them or creating a hostile environment. Many children of abuse display symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. It doesn’t take much to bring the memories of these disturbing events of the past to the forefront of a youth. If you’ve been abused and assaulted by adults throughout your upbringing, then are brought into a systematically aggressive environment, the fight or flight response may trigger violent episodic stages.
Placing a child into a cold sterile environment in order to reform them conjures up images of fear, loneliness, and despondency. I wish that alternative programs were available to all youth facing incarceration. Children need compassion, love and an understanding that they are important and the harsh experiences some of them have endured are real and need to be acknowledged.
I loved seeing a college environment for youths who have been incarcerated. When you see the homes that these children return to, the Rosa Parks facility is perhaps the nicest place they have ever stayed. I don’t believe that children should ever be treated like adults. Being treated as children and having the ability to explore what that means allows them to understand their proper place in society. These children were able to open up and release confessions in the presence of professionals that could help them cope. They were given staff that understood their individual needs and addressed their reactivity stemming from their victimization.
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