00:00Blue Thunder Legacy, in collaboration with New Hope Mental Health Counseling Services, hosted its first-ever childhood emotional neglect and
00:09trauma workshop at El Dorado East Secondary School.
00:13The initiative aims to address growing concerns about youth behavior, violence, and the underlying emotional challenges many students face.
00:22Speaking with members of the media, Janelle Sebastian Reyes says many of these issues often go unnoticed by caregivers and
00:30educators, contributing to behavioral challenges among students.
00:35This is something that touched deep because what we're realizing is that there's bullying, there's trauma, there's so many things
00:40happening in our country and in our society that just continue to escalate on the streets, escalating violence.
00:47And sometimes we realize that we as caregivers are not seeing the silence that is happening.
00:54We're not seeing what is happening inside of them and why are our children acting out.
00:58We thought that maybe we need to equip our educators, equip our administrators so they are able to look out
01:04for the signs, so that they are able to contact us.
01:06Because beyond just the information today, we want to have that relationship because we know at this time the students'
01:13support services are understaffed and we want to be able to provide a reach through our alumni to be able
01:20to get counseling and support for them.
01:22The workshop is designed to equip teachers and school administrators with the tools to recognize those signs early and respond
01:31effectively, particularly at a time when the student support services are stretched.
01:35If we are able to have this go on and pilot and go into different schools because we as caregivers,
01:42we as teachers, we as educators, we as persons from the past, we are those persons who can help change
01:47the trajectory of a child's life.
01:49Like we have to do early intervention to be able to fix what's happening.
01:53They also plan to expand the program to other schools, emphasizing the importance of early intervention in shaping a child's
02:00future.
02:01I genuinely believe one of the things that we believe is that if we are able to fix it at
02:05the primary school level, the secondary school level, then we can fix our country because these are the children that
02:10go on to become the adults.
02:11These are the children that go on to become the next generation.
02:14So why don't we give them the early intervention?
02:17Charlotte Kisto, TV6 News.
02:19That's been a really amazing talk because thank you very much.
02:20These callers case patrons come from there.
02:20We can say this is where they are.
02:20The teams come from there.
02:21And you who have been they have to take advantage of the city that has become the same, the city
02:21that has become the greatest of Western countries.
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