The stories are sometimes unbelievable, kids and youngsters are resilient, they can do with a little bit of help amazing things. Sometimes we were all surprised! The change happened so suddenly, you can never know which is the last straw that made the change:
These stories, they give us the energy we need to be at the frontline:
case study 1: Rachel
Rachel was always sitting alone, eating alone, her isolation was of concern, and she did not have any friends. Rachel grades decreased, When the teacher asked a question she never answered, it was obvious Rachel needs help, Rachel had the lowest scores in the class, she didn’t care, when her mom asked her with tears, is something bothering you? She told her mom with a passive tone, I do not care!
our director diagnosed her, with a minor cognitive deficiency. It started from that, however Rachel’s condition developed much worse, Rachel started to think she is hopeless, and worthless, she is really less then everyone around her and everyone knows it, so there was no reason for her at all, to try and to do anything. Rachel did give up before the battle even started, the reason for getting worse, was much more in her believe, then it was actually happening, so even a little bit of bullying, does the trick, and she was finished for life. She did not give any effort for friendship, so the peers who have tried to speak with Rachel, Rachel did not properly introduce herself, she did not give herself a chance, she looked like a shadow, rachel didn’t know it is her own doing
We accepted Rachel in our club, we told Rachel from now she would have a new sister, and we assigned somebody to be her sister, a new older sister. Someone to study with her, math, English, to listen to Rachel, than we made her the captain of the craft team, and everybody needed to ask her for advice. Suddenly it has happened, it was unexpected, she changed was indescribable, the mother told us with tears, it is not the same girl! no one could believe it is the same girl.
she started to laugh, loads of new friends, she even redo a test from the last term, she really does have amazing talent’s. Rachel was a success.
Rachel is not our first case, and not the our last case, and definitely not our worst case, after 2 weeks the director received a bunch of flowers with a box of chocolate as a thank you from her mother, but the director said at the meeting the most rewording was the tears of joy that came out of the mothers eyes.
Now years latter Rachel is a successful business woman, married with 2 children, helps out the charity from time to time as an amazing volunteer
“Self-harming by teenage girls doubles in 20 years”
The Times, 6ugust
2018
Not all of that increase reflects a genuine increase in self-harming, because measurement and reporting of the issue is getting better.
The number of girls admitted to hospital because of self-harming has doubled in the last 20 years.
The number of admissions for girls under the age of 18 because of self-harm increased from around 7,300 in 1997/98 to 13,500 in 2016/17. That’s an 84% increase.
That was a decrease on the previous year when there were over 14,600 admissions.
Over the same time period the number of girls in England under the age of 18 has increased by just 5%.
we can change all that, will you help us