“Looking back on our time at CRH, for the first time in [me and my sister's] lives we felt truly safe. The staff helped us feel accepted and secure. Most importantly, we were living without fear and just having fun as kids again.”
When I first came to the Children’s Receiving Home (CRH) as a fifteen-year-old runaway I was very lost and confused. I had been self-harming and had tried to commit suicide. I really wasn’t sure what the world had left for me.
How many days does it take to change a life? In the case of four-year-old Mason*, it was 251 days.
Two-hundred and fifty-one days of therapy, empathy, and helping him feel safe. Two-hundred and fifty-one days of nurturing and care by skilled teachers and clinicians. Two-hundred and fifty-one days in our Sprouts: Trauma-Informed Care Preschool.
