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April ~ A Month to Honor Children

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 13, 2015 / Tags: Child abuse, Child Abuse Prevention Month, Denise Levertov, Jackson County Oregon, Medford Oregon, National Poetry Month, Poetry, wisdom of poetry, young children

By Michelle Wilson April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is a month to honor children everywhere, those who have been harmed and those we hope to protect. It is also National Poetry Month. For this blog, I want to share a poem by a woman I had the great fortune to meet and hear

Only Love Sets Us Free

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 22, 2015 / Tags: abuse, Catherine Zern, Child Abuse Prevention Month, fear, loniliness, love, Maya Angelou, neglect, Touched By An Angel

By Michelle Wilson, CAC Development Director We received a lot of responses to the sharing of the poem “I Just Wanted to Tell You” by one of our therapists, Catherine Zern, LCSW. Many people were touched by the story she shared in this piece of a child reaching for love and guidance. The poem was

Just Wanted to Tell You

Posted by: cacjc / Feb 23, 2015 / Tags: Catherine Zern LCSW

Just Wanted to Tell You Poem by Catherine Zern, LCSW Your eyes were far away tonight And you didn’t have time to tell me a story Or listen to my fears of the dark So I screamed and cried til you spanked me But I was just trying’ to tell you that the House was

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