Gazette editorial: Want to improve WV’s economy? Treat unrecognized trauma [wvgazettemail.com]

Alicia Doktor 6/8/184:00 AM

Virginia social worker Allison Jackson tells a story of being in a barber shop when a vocational counselor, clearly frustrated, ranted about the men in his program. They completed training, got hired, in good construction jobs, for example, only to be fired a short time later.

“I’m so mad at these guys and they lose their jobs and I put them through all this hard skill training,” the counselor said in the story.

Jackson leaned over and asked, “Have you heard about trauma resilience?”

[For more on this post by @Allison Jackson, go to https://www.wvgazettemail.com/...0d-bedd0227e827.html]

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