Trauma-informed care, once little known, becomes statewide Wisconsin election-year issue [jsonline.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/22/1812:00 PM

Then came a series of dramatic events, one after another: In late 2014, allegations surfaced of abuse of minors by staff and allegations of the destruction of records, then a raid by state investigators, followed by a federal criminal probe into child neglect, prisoner abuse and a nearly $19 million settlement to end a lawsuit by a former inmate who was severely brain damaged in a suicide attempt.

Some guards afterward said they considered the trauma-informed approach ineffective and poorly executed, with one of them dismissing it as a “hug-a-thug” mentality.

If trauma-informed care amounted to a mere political fad, an embarrassment like Lincoln Hills likely would be enough to discredit it for good.

[For more on this story by John Schmid, go to https://www.jsonline.com/story...r-target/1348253002/]

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