ALL RISE: For the Good of the Children (trailer)

ALL RISE, For the Good of the Children, takes you inside the courtroom of an unconventional East Texas judge who uses a trauma-informed, trust-based approach to healing broken families in the child welfare system. Two families share how they transformed their lives through the support and intervention offered by Judge Carole Clark and her team of lawyers, mental health experts and child advocates.

A production of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development and Cactex Media.
Director, Producer, Writer: Olive Talley
Editor: Jeff Hutton
Director of Photography: Guy Hernandez
Executive Producer: Dr. David Cross

© Texas Christian University, Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. All rights reserved.

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I sure wish someone would have stepped up and helped me.
I lost my daughter, after a vicious rape, in 1977.
I called The Lutheran Children's Services, in Cleveland Ohio, told them what had happened.

They came for my daughter, and promised me she would be placed in a Christian home.
(no one ever asked me if I needed help, and I was so traumatized, alone in the world!)

In 1996, my daughter found me, and told me how she was placed in a Catholic home, suffered rape, negligence, and other abuses.
She is still suffering, and so am I!