When Yoselin Ocasio was hired two years ago as the climate manager at Lewis Elkin Elementary School in Kensington, she says, “I felt that with 15 years in social work, I was ready.”
But once on the job, Ocasio said, she realized that she wasn’t.
“It’s been very, very challenging. The walkie-talkie doesn’t stop.”
The neighborhood is plagued with substance abuse, neglect, and violence, she says, “and the kids come to school with that.”
[For more of this story, written by Paul Jablow, go to http://thenotebook.org/article...elp-kids-with-trauma]
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