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Dr. Sharon McDaniel’s own experience growing up in kinship care, led her to create Pennsylvania-based A Second Chance, Inc. (ASCI) in 1994. This month, McDaniel was honored for her work... By Kim Phagan-Hansel This post Sharon McDaniel, Pioneer on Prioritizing …
By: Kristine AlarconEdited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. “Life again” highlights the true story of cancer survivor, Hyma Reddy. Reddy also directs the film and shares her journey with cancer. With this film, she hopes to bring cancer awareness and inspire …
On Friday, July 21st, 2017, the world watched the horrific footage of 16-year-old Cruz Velazquez Acevedo taking multiples sips of an unidentified liquid that would lead to his death – all while in custody of the largest law enforcement agency …
The European Social Network (ESN) invited me to speak at their Workforce Seminar in November of last year in Bratslavia, Slovakia. Alfonso Lara Montero is the Policy Director at ESN. Alfonso leads the organization to provide a collaboration to network …
On November 30, 2015, something made Mindy Knapp very angry at her adopted daughters, Malayia, aged 17, and her 14-year-old sister. Knapp told the girls’ 16-year-old brother to discipline them. So he made Malayia and her sister run up and down …
Are you using language in your cover letter that is unintentionally hurting your chances of getting an interview; simply because of how you are expressing yourself? I’m going to strongly suggest that you pause reading right here and pull out …
In a recent op-ed published in The Chronicle of Social Change, Marie Cohen argued that “when a child is left in a dangerous home with multiple strong indications of maltreatment, there is reason to question the balance that is currently …
The number of children in foster care has increased for the third straight year. Foster parent shortages have been reported in at least 24 states, with children staying in offices and hotels. The move by some states to close residential …
I will leave it to others to try to guess what the election of Donald Trump means for child welfare policy, aside from pointing out that in addition to all the other reasons to worry, as far as I know …
This story was first published in The Huffington Post on April 4. On Father’s Day weekend, I will once again don my climbing boots, grab the ice axe and head up the snowy flanks of 14,000-foot Mt. Shasta in …