The Stories team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund works with storytellers who author op-eds about how policy impacts their lives. The team helps elevate their op-eds.
As a school psychologist, therapist, and mother living in Bethlehem, I see everyday how policy decisions in Washington affect our community – especially in the lives of our children. I work with students from kindergarten through fifth grade across three elementary schools. Thanks to the program I’m part of, kids can receive therapy. I meet with them in offices provided by the schools. It’s a lifeline for them, and often, for their families.
These kids are incredible. At just five to eleven years old, they already want to change the world. But the world, in turn, is not meeting them halfway.
The above excerpt was originally published in The Bucks County Beacon.
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