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Edgecombe County puts trauma front and center to heal the community [northcarolinahealthnews.org]

 

By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Photo: Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, North Carolina Health News, May 31, 2022

Students in the Honor Opportunity Purpose and Excellence — HOPE — program start each morning by breathing.

The alternative high school, nested within Tarboro High in Edgecombe County, is led by Quarry Williams, a man who’s moved up the public school food chain from bus driver to school counselor to administrator and nearly everything in between.

Once the students are settled, Williams comes to the front of the room and asks them to think of a place where they feel safe.

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