sexual harm. And so that's also a very strong, um, highlight that I want to acknowledge for all faiths because of that terminology that I just used. We do not say a perpetrator, a sex offender, um, you know, for, for youth, because they're still children and something happens to them, they're learning these behaviors. And then now, unfortunately, our mimicking it, we again have this, uh, group of therapists and providers. We have a CSE as well, who has gone through an extensive training to work with that population. And the effectiveness of that treatment is is actually really high. Um, we see really good, good progress. And, and it's that is a very collaborative type of treatment where we're working with juvenile justice. Often we're working with.
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Um, attorneys, lawyers, judges to really help conceptualize this case and target our interventions. To what? What was going on. We also offer groups for teens, which is exciting. So we have a body image and self esteem group for teens because oh my goodness, to be a teen in this day and age, I can't even imagine. Um, and so that really highlights the effects of social media and how everything is through a filter. But yet you see this and then compare yourself to that group. I just see that group taking off, really. Um, and we have a teen art based group, which is, which is really exciting. That is going through adulthood. I know we are called All Faiths Children's Advocacy Center because children are the heart of our program and our focus. And at that same time, we realize that we cannot work with a child, only send them into a home setting where nothing is changing. If the adult or parent or caregiver isn't receiving any support or services, how can we expect this child to really thrive and make changes? So we have we have outpatient services for adults. Our focus when we work with adults is always looping it back to how it is. Whatever's going on in your life impacting your ability to parent, that might just be normal. Stressors. Work stressors. Often what we see is if a child is coming to us because they have experienced a traumatic event, this is bringing back a past trauma that the parent experienced that they either forgot about,
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they never informed anyone or talked about it, or they worked on it. But now as a parent, it's impacting them different. So we see that often where the the parent is able to come to us and say, you know what, this this is now impacting my ability to parent my, my child or look at my child in this manner. Um, or I'm remembering all these things I didn't get as a child and now I'm stuck. Now I can't parent my child. 1s Well, it's I love that it's, as you mentioned, like all the way from the beginning to all the way into adulthood. We are a children's advocacy center, but we really just span development as a whole. That's really beautiful to hear.
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Yeah. Um, so let's say that I'm a brand new therapist. Brand new master's degree, brand new license. What does that look like for me if I wanted to start at all things? Yes, it's a great question. So we do not expect ever for a brand new candidate to be trained in everything. Or to say I can work with every population. Uh, being the jack of all trades is not our goal, right? So we we want someone who is open to learning. We want someone who might naturally have that inclination of that trauma informed lens. Maybe they haven't been through a formalized training, but their nature is
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