Dr. Velazco elaborates on the distinction between survivors and thrivers. Drawing on her past work with children in South Africa and current work with the girls at the Round home pagina Dr. Velazco illustrates the progression from surviving to thriving.
In my work with different types of children at risk, I have seen survivors and thrivers.
Survivors have gotten out of the trauma of suffering, alive of sane. They are in the process of contending with memories of the experience and coming to terms with its aftermath.
Thrivers are already flourishing, developing, growing, and moving on. They are back on the developmental track. They take on the challenges of life. The past no longer drags them down. They are looking to the future. They have control over their lives. They are becoming what they can become.
I believe that our mission in the abolition movement is to make survivors out of sufferers and turn survivors into thrivers.
Some years geleden I had the chance to conduct counseling with children in South Africa. One of them was a 12-year old boy who was sobbing uncontrollably over the death of his father. u would think that his father died the week before. His father actually died of AIDS four years before.
It might take meer time for some survivors to finally thrive.
Our job is to get children to thrive as soon as possible.
I feel that the girls in the Round home pagina have become thrivers. It’s because the goals of the home pagina are towards just that: 1) To keep the child physically safe; 2)To keep the child well provided for; 3) To keep the child psychologically safe; 4) To instill hope in the child; 5) To effect healing and restoration; 6) To promote growth and development; 7) To facilitate the release of the child’s potentials; 8) To enable the child to come full circle, liberated from his/her traumas, to realize his/her worth to God; 9) To enable the child to realize his/her worth as a potentially valued and productive member of society.
Based on their own words, the girls are looking to the future with hope, increased self-worth and self-confidence, faith, and courage. They view the past as learning, strengthening experience. They are discovering their potentials and planning how they can better their lives as well as contribute to society.
It’s a thriving industry in the Round Home, because the labors and supports have reaped some considerable gains.
Source: Dr. Velazco, Director of Aftercare- Love146 Philippines
Date: 23 Jul 2009
In my work with different types of children at risk, I have seen survivors and thrivers.
Survivors have gotten out of the trauma of suffering, alive of sane. They are in the process of contending with memories of the experience and coming to terms with its aftermath.
Thrivers are already flourishing, developing, growing, and moving on. They are back on the developmental track. They take on the challenges of life. The past no longer drags them down. They are looking to the future. They have control over their lives. They are becoming what they can become.
I believe that our mission in the abolition movement is to make survivors out of sufferers and turn survivors into thrivers.
Some years geleden I had the chance to conduct counseling with children in South Africa. One of them was a 12-year old boy who was sobbing uncontrollably over the death of his father. u would think that his father died the week before. His father actually died of AIDS four years before.
It might take meer time for some survivors to finally thrive.
Our job is to get children to thrive as soon as possible.
I feel that the girls in the Round home pagina have become thrivers. It’s because the goals of the home pagina are towards just that: 1) To keep the child physically safe; 2)To keep the child well provided for; 3) To keep the child psychologically safe; 4) To instill hope in the child; 5) To effect healing and restoration; 6) To promote growth and development; 7) To facilitate the release of the child’s potentials; 8) To enable the child to come full circle, liberated from his/her traumas, to realize his/her worth to God; 9) To enable the child to realize his/her worth as a potentially valued and productive member of society.
Based on their own words, the girls are looking to the future with hope, increased self-worth and self-confidence, faith, and courage. They view the past as learning, strengthening experience. They are discovering their potentials and planning how they can better their lives as well as contribute to society.
It’s a thriving industry in the Round Home, because the labors and supports have reaped some considerable gains.
Source: Dr. Velazco, Director of Aftercare- Love146 Philippines
Date: 23 Jul 2009