“80 percent of people or children never talk about the trauma they have experienced in life,” Knight said. The Exchange Center provides a safe space for people who fall into that statistic.
The center provides free trauma-informed care for families and victims of abuse, all with the goal to"Be the Change."DOTHAN, Ala. - The Exchange Center for Child Abuse Prevention has been around since the 1970s.
“If I could just sum it up in one word, I think it would be ‘life-changing,’” Kimberly Knight, an adolescent therapist, said. “80 percent of people or children never talk about the trauma they have experienced in life,” Knight said.“They are able to talk about that and they are understood and respected and just to have them a better outcome as far as their healing process and building resiliency,” Knight said.“The services that we offer here are very similar to the services that I have received when I was growing up as well,” Knight said.
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