One way we describe ourselves at Children First is “individualized, not institutional.” Our seeing and listening, our documenting and planning, and our hopes and dreams focus not so much on the group of 12 children, but on the astonishing and dear individuals
No child was meant to be ordinary and you can see it in them and know it too. Then the times get to them and they wear out their brains learning what folks expect and then spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.