Thank You Julia, for posting that link. A number of similar publications like it, can be found and/or accessed in our National Center for PTSD Library in White River Junction, Vermont. I read part of the report of the Canadian Solicitor General on the Aboriginal Schools, there, and found the noted efforts to create a Healing Society commendable.
Thank You Dylan for a most eloquent plea, for not only what you need, but for sharing the hope of trusting egalitarian relationships with others who share our goal of Recovery, and for letting me know that-so that I might concur (in whole or in part). I do concur!
Also,Thank You 5Jackie. I will hope that since it was published, in 1997, some improvents have occured in Maine, and elsewhere. I testified before the Vermont Legislative Trauma Commission in 2000. Since that time I have had my hopes raised by much, and despaired on more than a few occasions, although I found Susan Lawrence, M.D.'s book "Creating A Healing Society: How unhealed Trauma..." and her personal narrative of her childhood, and how it helped her discover her mission[s] in life, after enduring substantial tragedies, and how her mission progressed and where she asked: "What happened to You?" rather than "What's Wrong with You?", and how the U.S. Center for Disease Control partnered with Kaiser-Permanente Health to study almost 18,000 of their patients and what their childhoods were like....and how we can avail our presence to one another to make the Hope of Recovery a reality, and ensure that resilience is available to future generations. Four Canadian Protestant denominations which ran the Aboriginal Schools have officially taken responsibility for their part, and an effort is underway to embark on a healing process, similar to what Nelson Mandela embarked on in South Africa. Regretably, my nation has yet to incorporate Children's Rights into our National Constitution like most of the other industrial democracies have done. A 13 year old boy, at the time, from Canada, undertook a mission to improve the conditions under which many Children around the world labor, in unhealthy and outrageous conditions, and the book "Child Labor" is a fitting tribute both to himself and the honor of Canada. That is only my expressing my humble opinion based upon my world view. It is no more valid than your post is for you.
Thank All of you again for participating in this forum, and for letting me also.