Residential setting

Today I applied for a job at a residential crisis assessment, stabilization and treatment center for kids with serious emotional disturbances (ie., predominantly foster care and former foster care kids). The director, in my interview emphasized that the rewards are sometimes hard to see because the acuity level is so high and the kids are very disturbed from the physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect that they have undergone. She said that they have some children who are at the center whose parents were also treated here when they were children. Talk about a cycle that hasn't been broken.