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Advocates ask Forest Park to support declaring childhood trauma an emergency to unlock services
Summary
A local advocacy group asked Forest Park to partner on a declaration of emergency for childhood trauma, arguing it would unlock resources for prevention and treatment; council thanked the speakers and said it would consider the request for future action.
At the Oct. 7 Forest Park council meeting, Ronald Hummons, executive director of the Childhood Trauma Emergency Group, asked the city to partner in a proposal to declare childhood trauma a state of emergency in order to access additional resources for prevention, treatment and upstream interventions.
Hummons said an emergency declaration would activate authorities and resources "unavailable in non-emergencies," and asked the mayor and council to…
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