Friday, April 16

Today we finished up the training with workshops on stress management and relaxation, anger management, assertiveness training and communication. Many of the clients were so sad to leave and kept telling me how much they didn’t want to go home. Typically in a camp situation, you know kids don’t want to go home because they had been having so much fun, but I knew these comments meant more than that. Here the clients are encouraged, are celebrated, are loved…and some clients had to go back to shelters where they didn’t have families, or back to families that can’t give them the love they so desperately crave. We had a nice graduation ceremony where we provided them with certificates of participation, a group photo, and an individual photo of them standing in front of the training sign.