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~ Food For Thought ~
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The Child and Youth Care Platinum Rule: "Treat people the way they want to be treated"
"Often the kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways"
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- Russell A. Barkley
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"When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower"
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- Alexander Den Heijer
"Although there are some situations that we may not have experienced in where as the young people may have, we must remember to be empathetic and try to understand where the young person is coming from"
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- Bright Sarpong
"Always be mindful of your social location and that of the young person's, as well as how they both share likeness and may clash with each other in difference"
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- Gabriela Pires
"There are no bad kids, just impressionable, conflicted young people wrestling with emotions & impulses, trying to communicate their feelings & needs the only way they know how"
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- Janet Lansbury
"Beneath every behaviour there is a feeling. And beneath each feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom"
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- Ashleigh Warner
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"Rather then trying to fix a young person, guid them on their journey to healing"
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- Gabriela Pires
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"Focus not on why a young person IS trouble, but why as young person IS HAVING trouble in their current life circumstances"
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- Bright Sarpong
"Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret"
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-Lori Deschene
"It takes a village to raise a child"
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- Hillary Clinton
"We are the support system for the young people, we are their greatest resource for wellness"
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- Amy Johnson
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