Tagged With "Focused on Keeping Families"

Hello, Everyone, I am co-editor of a new publication on Medium.com, to be launched in March 2020. Collective Power is the written arm of Home for Good , a collective organization recently launched after 6 years of planning. HFG began when our founders asked themselves, "What would a system that reflects our love for our children look like?" HFG's mission is to transform the trauma too often perpetuated by the various helping systems, among the people they purport to help—whether the...

Well Jeff, You cannot educate everyone! There are those that do not want to see or hear, at least not yet, not until it becomes personal. The one thing that people should keep in mind is that not all children in foster care are/have been abused. There are many reasons that children enter into the foster care system. Are there sociopaths in the "system", sure there are. However, it does not appear that the proportion of sociopaths is higher in foster/congregate care than it is in the general...

Please take a moment to watch/listen to this 2:00 video of the story of a little girl in 1874, Mary Ellen Wilson, and one Social Worker (Etta Wheeler) that changed the course of history for abuse, neglected, and maltreated children in this country. Here is a link as well if you prefer reading something about the history of Foster Care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Wilson Thankx Tanya and Loren for your recent contributions...lets keep the communication ongoing...!