Guest Blog - Hurricanes and Childhood Trauma

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A couple of months ago us Floridians went through Hurricane Irma together.

At that time I was struck with the parallel of the trauma of that experience and what a child in foster care must experience regularly, you can read more about my take on that here:

https://eckerd.org/2017/09/18/guest-blog-life-foster-care-can-never-ending-hurricane/

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