COMING SOON: The Mark C. Smith Wellness Center

BBreakthrough therapy can heal the trauma children in foster care have experienced, and Kids to Love is leading the way.

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But there is hope: trauma can be treated.

Lee Marshall Founder / CEO Kids to Love Foundation

We broke ground recently on the Mark C. Smith Wellness Center, home of the Grant Hill Trauma Team, to fill this critical need in the foster care community. Every single child in foster care has experienced trauma in some form. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Foster Initiative identifies behavioral health as the greatest unmet need for children and teens in foster care. Up to 80% of children in foster care have significant mental health issues, that’s 4 times the general popu-

Kids to Love is offering a new approach called Instinctual Trauma Response. ITR treatment will determine the level of trauma a child has experienced and address the trauma they’ve experienced in order to improve their cognitive and behavioral health. This therapy is not just life-changing; it is life-giving for our kids.

You will hear a lot more about the Mark C. Smith Wellness Center in the coming weeks and months as we give our children the help they need to live healthy lives. For more information, log on to kidstolove.org