Marc Sweet, a Winnipeg man, said that when he was a kid, he didn’t notice his family’s financial struggles, but looking back, they were there.
“They’ve been used and abused by the medical system. They’ve been used and abused by the CFS system. They’ve been used and abused by the justice system,” she said.
“We lived in a trailer, and the trailer was owned by my grandfather,” he said. “There was always a threat of being kicked out, and we actually moved from a couple of different places when we were young.” “Even people who have been raised by very good foster parents have said, ‘I was still taken away from my family.’ They still have had that brokenness inside them, and that does harm,” she said.
“There’s trauma that comes from living in that same space — you know, still that fear. I just got to the point where I didn’t feel like I belonged, didn’t want to be where people didn’t care about me, so I ran away.”At 14 years old, Sweet said he took to the streets and joined a gang, hoping he’d find a family. But he was caught after committing a robbery as his initiation and spent 12 months in Agassiz Youth Centre.
Kehler said poverty creates long-term mental health struggles like chronic stress, which has an impact on decision-making, judgment and emotional regulation. Adolescents in the lowest income quintile are four times as likely to die by suicide than those in the top four brackets.“If we can’t feel that finger pointing at us, then I’m in despair,” she said.
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