How Trauma Changes Genes
We know that children who experience abuse or neglect are “off the charts at risk,” as Dr. Joan Kaufman puts it, for psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety and substance abuse.…
The Life of Firestrike
Every child needs a hero. Hurt and abused children need superheroes. Family & Children’s Services Child Abuse and Trauma Services – also known as CATS – leaps giant hurdles to…
Christine Marsh: Improving lives through understanding
Christine Marsh is the Senior Director of the Child Abuse and Trauma Services at Family & Children’s Services (FCS). Marsh has been the director since 1990 when the program was…
Tie a blue ribbon around the old oak tree
In 1983, during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, April was set aside as National Child Abuse Awareness month as a way of raising awareness for the issues of child abuse…
Natalie’s Story
This is the story of Natalie Dolan, an adoptive parent in Oklahoma who has taken in two children in need. Their lives have been changed for the better thanks to…