When you think about it, saying that trust is built over time is an incredibly accurate way to put it. You have to continuously add interactions to your history with someone to get to a place of trust. Each positive interaction is like a brick. Each negative interaction, like a sledgehammer.
When it comes to building trust with the youth you work with, I can’t offer great advice. I can’t tell you that because you are going to be working with individuals, not some generic prototypes who can take the same inputs and get the same results. All of the youth you will work with will have come from very different backgrounds. They will all have had different experiences that have shaped how they view the world. And they will have had their own interactions with you. The best advice I can provide is that to build, to continue to lay bricks. To be intentional about the nature of interactions you have. Work to build your history with your team, one interaction at a time, as a means of building a much more trust-filled future.
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