What Can We Do? (continued)

Address Individual Needs

• Understand and respond to diverse individual needs, including but not limited to a person’s culture, race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, and ability.
• Understand that backgrounds and differences shape an individual’s healing process after trauma.
• Know that your life experiences and perspective affect how you view and respond to others.
• Apply the individual’s perspective to your understanding and way of working with them.
• Seek out ways to enhance children's connections to their background, communities and individual supports.