How do you persuade her to detach herself without losing her trust?
An education outreach worker recalls a process that took more than two years
- When I was working in a mentoring and education programme, a 15-year-old girl turned up and asked for help one night as we were about to close. She was an asylum-seeker who had arrived alone and had gone into a foster home. Her mother had recently arrived and she wanted a close relationship with her, but when she went to see her, her mother would hit her. She was hospitalised more than once, but she kept returning.
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