Sarah Leishman - Child Youth Worker (CYW)

Sarah Leishman is a child and youth worker (CYW), a CYW is a person who works with troubled children up to the age of 18, and she will talk to the children and their families about small nagging issues and big stressful life changing issues. Some of the issues they talk about can be special needs, mental trauma, abuse, neglect, anxiety, and eating disorders. having someone like a CYW is very helpful to children because the most important factor that gives kids resilience to cope with trauma is having someone to talk to, but a CYW is not always helpful, I used to know a girl who would lie to the CYW to make him/her think she was ok even though she was harming herself and had suicidal thoughts. Therefor even though a CYW can be very helpful to some children there are other children who will not let them help.