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Article: Jasper Mountain is a life preserver for troubled kids.(Local Opinion)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2008
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Debra Eisert For The Register-Guard
Children deserve to be our top priority, and they deserve the very best care possible. This is particularly true for children who have been abused by trusted adults.
At Jasper Mountain, taking excellent care of abused children is not only important, it is our primary mission and the reason we have existed for more than 25 years.
In that quarter of a century, we never have turned away abused children because they were too difficult to help. We have never discharged a single child because of challenging behavior, as other programs routinely do. For many abused children with serious ...