The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

A Syrian refugee girl who was briefly separated from her parents cries as she walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. Thousands of refugees and migrants, including many families with young children, have been left soaked after spending the night sleeping in the open in torrential rain on the Greek-Macedonian border. About 7,000 people waited in the mud of an open field near the northern Greek village of Idomeni to cross the border, with more arriving in trains, buses and taxis, as Macedonian police has imposed rationing in the flow of refugees. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - S1BEUGOKOIAA

In February, UNICEF reported that there were over 12 million children worldwide living as refugees and asylum seekers, and another 16 million displaced in their own countries due to war and conflict. In the U.S., we have over 2,000 migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking children at our southern border who were taken from their parents and … Continue reading The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children