Just listening to someone can be helpful by: Jasmine Ramos

I had the privilege of reviewing a declaration from a young man who was fleeing the threats of Ms-18. He started out telling his story and in the middle of his recount he started to share that ever since he had been reunited with his son, his son has not been able to sleep. His son has been waking up in the middle of the night screaming. It was very hard to watch his son playing and laughing with the other children while listening to the father share how his son has been suffering. The separation from his child was not relevant to his asylum claim but we did not stop him from talking about it. He needed to share this. I was so grateful that our Trauma specialist was with us so she was able to give him advice as to what to do with her son.

This post was originally published at "STU Karnes Project", a blog coordinated by Donna Nasimov. (https://stukarnes.wordpress.com)