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InnerViews – The Village Shows Up: Sisterhood, Motherhood & Raising Jayden
This week on InnerViews ... What does it take to help raise a child when you’re not their parent? Ivory sits down with her sister Ebony Turner to talk about becoming Jayden’s mother and aunt, the joys and exhaustion of caregiving, and the gap b...
One State’s Attempt to Build a Foster Care-to-College Pipeline
On this week’s episode we are joined by Toni Watt, a sociology professor at Texas State University of San Marcos, who has worked diligently along with others to help foster youth in the state get to college and get a degree. A recen...
Helping International Adoptees on the Road to Healing and Growth
On this week’s episode we welcome back Ian Forber-Pratt, former president of the Children’s Emergency Relief International, who has launched The Ties Foundation to help people who experienced an international adoption travel to their homelands ...
InnerViews – “I’ve Lived It Twice”: Experiencing Child Welfare as a Child and a Parent
Billie has experienced child welfare from multiple perspectives: as a child in foster care and group placements, and later as a parent. In this deeply personal conversation, she joins InnerViews host Ivory Bennett to discuss grief, bei...
Headlines: ICE and Child Welfare, State Spending Woes and More
On this week’s episode we review some interesting research on kinship diversion, emergency placements and the nexus between child welfare systems and immigration under Trump. Then we discuss some local headlines on state child welfare spending ...