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required Trauma Informed Practices training which has helped
staff and faculty employ structural sensitivity during the past year.
In these ways, Berks County has united against the challenges of
COVID-19 to protect its children and its future.
Jasmine Slusser is a Public Health student entering her
third year at George Washington University's Milken
Institute of Public Health. As a mandated reporter who is
passionate about pediatric health, Jasmine would like to
thank everyone who made this research possible!
I would like to thank the following members of the child
services community for the time and expertise they
contributed to this project:
Kevin Bush, Anne Fisher, Keirstan Edris, Meg McCallum,
Teresa Olsen, Lauren Oswald, Colleen Sauls, Amy
Sundstrom, Christopher Valente, and Detective Sergeant
Gerardo Vega.
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