Stanley Smith has spent nearly four decades helping troubled young people earn GEDs and get jobs, but he learned something new this week that he thinks will help him do his job even better.
Smith, an employment advocate with the Mayor's Office of Employment Development, was among 150 Baltimore city employees who sat through training on how to recognize, understand and respond to people who have experienced some form of trauma.
As the city faces a surge of violent crime, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has made it a priority to get city workers at all levels to better understand the residents they serve and why they may be behaving the way they are.
[For more of this story, written by Andrea K. McDaniels, go to http://www.baltimoresun.com/he...-20150827-story.html]
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