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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live less than two blocks from Greentree and used to volunteer at this organization. They do a lot of good and I think the center has offered up some good suggestions of ways to help. Think about how much teens in MCPS in general are struggling, and the uptick in violence even among those students who have stable home lives and who aren't living in a new environment away from family where they likely feel like a fish out of water. There's a big divide between the background and advantages of a typical child who finds themselves needing to live at Greentree and the typical Whitman teen. This letter is less about the three teens implicated in this murder, and more about ways to help all the other kids, staff and families there who would benefit from support. I like the ideas of helping expand their extracurricular options, educate the kids there about possible careers or write a letter to staff or residents of Greentree. I'm not as comfortable with the in-person, eating oriented activity they suggested because of covid, but there are lots of other ways to help if someone is inclined to do so and/or has a special skill set or connections. You can be horrified by these specific individuals and the murder, and still want to help the other children there. [/quote]
Well glad that you feel safe, but I live in close proximity and don’t. This murder has destroyed the entire premise of the GAP program, that giving kids therapy and putting them in a different environment would make a positive difference. In anything, what most likely happened is that the program induced this outcome by putting two impressionable kids in close contact with a third who seems to have been the ring leader and a sociopath. It’s hard to argue that they would not have been better off staying wherever they were. And it’s hard to argue that whatever NCCF was doing programmatically was not only ineffective but failed miserably.

Before I would ever entertain a suggestion from this group about providing them any support I want to hear from them about why they failed these kids and how they are and will change to prevent this from happening in the future.

If they cannot address that then they should just shut down because there is no point. [/quote]

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