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In this session, David D'Amora and Danica Szarvas-Kidd provided opening remarks and a welcome from the hosting agencies, the Justice Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Tonier Cain, the keynote speaker, then provided a riveting account of her life, as someone who has experienced profound trauma starting at a young age, and her cycling in and out of the many systems as a result of those traumatic incidents and subsequent mental health and substance abuse problems. Ms. Cain offered a candid view of the many problems she encountered in both the mental health and criminal justice systems, but also provided hope through her remarkable recovery spurred by a specialty program in Baltimore.