What could it take to win your trust?
It takes a very special kind of person to work with children who have challenging behaviour. Vicky Leaning assists juvenile offenders and is also a mental health first aider. Vicky works hard to ‘think creatively about stress at work.’ Service User 0001, she explains, ‘has helped me to get my feelings about a difficult young person I was working with down on paper and explore my own thoughts and sadness.’ Thank you Vicky for your excellent contribution.
Service user 0001
The defences are up
Your iron clad eyes look straight through me
They lost their life years ago
Are you even hearing me?
The court brought me here
You have no choice
What could it take to win your trust?
Another face
Another promise
Someone else’s hope and dreams
You have heard it all before
I drown you in language you don’t understand
Your mind is 6, body 16
You have no interest in it
Looking to the clock, the minutes til I leave
I shut the door, til it revolves again
A mislaid sigh of relief
And a sadness
This is you
Vicky Leaning
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