What price do we pay for a broken child? Currently, the number of abused and neglected children in America is staggering. Over half a million now live in foster care. While the damage to these children is not yet completely understood, the increase in anti-social behaviors stemming from unhealed trauma and abandonment is potentially devastating.

While healthcare professionals are either uncertain how to fix traumatized children or believe that they cannot be healed at all, Some Way Home details the way to make them whole. Schools don’t understand them, so aren’t much help. Our courts, now filled with them, only punish and make matters worse.

A memoir in a myth, Some Way Home is based on a true story. It is the account of the handling and healing of Dylan, a prototypical foster child. He comes into this world a fairly anonymous character and is soon sent wandering through the government’s child protection agencies in search for a home. He lacks a stable family to hold, care, or protect him; so early on, he is subjected to several, significant traumas of abuse and abandonment. He suffers but strives to survive emotionally until his mental health is challenged to the point of psychosis.

Some Way Home depicts the impact of childhood trauma and separation in an intimate but constructive way. It is both harrowing and redemptive and demonstrates that even badly damaged children can be healed.

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David J. Kenney is a noted speaker having presented to parent and professional groups at colleges, universities and educational in-services on topics such as healing trauma, stress management, anxiety reduction, children with attention deficits, behavior as language, general parenting and achieving success in our schools.

David has been a school psychologist for over twenty three years in a diverse group of educational settings. He acted as a general, mental health specialist, working to solve problems with teachers and families before special education was needed to formally certify them.

But his most important job has bee to raise two traumatized children to healthy maturity. Wounded children have little reason to trust it, so there were no guarantees of successful outcomes. Through his committed efforts, David learned strategies to heal harmed children. His expertise and insight has been noted by colleagues, who continue to seek him out for mentoring and training.