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Meet Kids Harbor: Helping children and families through trauma [TheRollaDailyNews.com]

 

What happens when a child finds the courage to tell someone about abuse?
The phone rings at 1-800-392-3738, Missouri's Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline, and information is taken. The child has told a trusted adult such as a teacher, parent, friend, police officer, or someone who has called the hotline to report the abuse.
The call could come in at any time of the day, night, or day of the week and often does, according to Kids Harbor Executive Director Cara M. Gerdiman.
“We respond 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Gerdiman said in a recent interview.
There are several ways a call can come into the hotline, according to Gerdiman. Sometimes people call Kids Harbor and are referred to the hotline or Sometimes parents take a child to their local law enforcement agency and the officer calls in the hotline. Calls come in from doctors, schools, children themselves, neighbors and all kinds of sources. The response is the important part.



[For more of this story go to http://www.therolladailynews.c...ilies-through-trauma]

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