Playtime at the childcare center devoted to serving homeless youth, is actually therapy in disguise.
The Vogel Alcove is breaking the cycle of homelessness by making it look like kids play, because it is.
“The brain develops through its experiences,” explains Karen Hughes, the Vogel Alcove CEO. “If a child’s experiences are all trauma, that brain is going to be wired the wrong way. Research is clear: the first 3 years are critical, if you can change a child’s life in the first three years, you can change their life forever.”Made possible through a grant from the Santander Consumer USA, Inc.
Hughes says they’ve served some 17,000 children over the decades– looking to intervene early so that their clients don’t come back as adults, with families of their own in crisis. But that intervention has to happen now.
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