As part of his court-appointed special advocate training, Scott Lippman scribbled some of the things he cared about on index cards. He picked his family, date and a movie with his wife, chocolate and his dogs, to name a few. Minutes later, the instructor shredded the cards. “This is what it’s like to be removed from your family, everything you know and everything that’s important to you is shredded into pieces,” Lippman said.