The survivor, their families and the community have to be treated as a whole. A step that is often missing in treatment is follow-up at home. Brasfield said one of the problems there is confidentiality, because often the people who should be helping are victims or perpetrators themselves. Blackwater said that sometimes the workers who are supposed to help people are abusers who are survivors themselves who have not sorted out their own problems. Or they fight among themselves for money, for power.
Court is deadly.
I mean it. Cheryl attended a Catholic day school and her parents attended residential schools. Only seeking out her own culture is saving her, she said. Cheryl said she doesn't blame her parents for her loss of culture and language. She blames the government and the churches, whose legal representatives point their fingers at each other.