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• Bade: Early childhood trauma is also an issue

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - The Rev. Dennis Lee Bade got interested in social issues while studying at the Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, and he has pursued those concerns throughout the half-century since then ...

... Now semi-retired, Bade is a volunteer chaplain at Medical Center Hospital and a member of the H21 Drug Coalition and UTPB Early Childhood Coalition. “Odessa and Midland have a high rate of child abuse and neglect,” he said ...

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