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Latest Episodes
Imagination Factory: Live Coaching with Jalaycia Lewis
The Proximity Process
This is a particularly exciting episode because we are doing something a little bit different. Today’s guest is Jalaycia Lewis who is part of the Imagination Factory community and someone I’ve been coaching for the past 6 months or so. Like so many of us, Jalaycia has ideas and dreams for what she wants to do in the world. She wants her work to align with her values, what she loves, what she’s good at, and how she wants to create a more just world. For her, that is an idea she calls The Social Recipe, which is an organization she’s wanted to start for years. In this episode you are going to drop into a live coaching session with me and Jalaycia
The Common Ground of Parental Rights, with Vivek Sankaran and Michael Farris
The EPPiC Broadcast
This week, we welcome Vivek Sankaran and Michael Farris to the podcast. Vivek is a professor of law at the Michigan University School of Law and Director of their Child Advocacy Law Clinic. Michael is a constitutional law scholar, founding president of ParentalRights.org, and the former CEO and president of Alliance Defending Freedom.
From the Archive
A History of Parental Rights, with Stephen Krason
The EPPiC Broadcast
This week, we talk with Stephen Krason, Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Parental Rights Foundation board member. Stephen tells us about the historical background of parental rights, and why we have the parental rights laws that we have today. He also explains the legal underpinnings of […]Education Is Around Us Every Day
Resilient Voices & Beyond
“Education is around us every day, providing us with opportunity…Be wise enough to see it, take action, and live out your wildest dream.” In this episode, I had the great pleasure of talking with Shanell Lavallie about her story and journey to being an educator and more…
SafeCamp Shows
Community In-Site
Thriving Families, Safer Children
Community In-site is a podcast about the growing movement for family well-being. Hosts Tecoria Jones and Elliot Hinkle bring their lived expertise with the child welfare system as well as their professional insights to each episode.- Child Welfare
- Family
InnerViews: A Podcast from Youth Voices Rising
SafeCamp Audio
InnerViews is not just a podcast; it’s an intimate exploration led by Ivory Bennett, a seasoned professional with 17 years of lived foster care experience. Each episode is a deep dive into topics surrounding trauma, mental and emotional health, well-being, and the unique challenges faced by Black women in the realm of healing.- Child Welfare
Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life
The Reproductive Health Equity Project at the National Center for Youth Law
Welcome to Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life, a podcast from foster youth for foster youth. In foster care systems, there aren’t always people to answer your big questions or open up to concerning sensitive topics. That’s why we’re bringing these conversations to you! Hosts and guests discuss puberty, relationships, sexual health, […]- Foster Care
- Healthcare
- Transition-age Youth
The Proximity Process
Fourteenth Street Studios
This is a show about how child welfare transformation actually starts with personal transformation. Follow Matt Anderson, a former child welfare executive with 20 years of experience, as he goes deeper into his own process of becoming who he needs to be. Matt has conversations with creative disruptors who help us see how systems can harm and oppress people. Each episode is an invitation to go deeper into your own process of being in service of people rather than systems.- Child Welfare
Born In June, Raised In April: What Adoption Can Teach the World
April Dinwoodie
Nationally recognized thought leader, April Dinwoodie, hosts a personal journey while exploring her adoption experience.- Adoption
How Is That Legal?: Breaking Down Systemic Racism One Law at a Time
Community Legal Services of Philadelphia
Kee Tobar and expert guests break down examples of systemic racism in the law and policy. By the end of each episode, you’ll understand the forces behind everyday injustices that make us ask, “How in the world is that legal?”- Law & Policy
- Racial Justice
Resilient Voices & Beyond
MDDTSpeaks
Through our podcast, Resilient Voices and Beyond, we strive to educate our listeners on reforms, advocacy, policies, prevention, foster care, adoption, kinship, CCIs, JJ, and the child welfare system, while challenging and breaking away from the stigmas and labels surrounding these topics.- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
- Law & Policy
- Transition-age Youth
The EPPiC Broadcast
Parental Rights Foundation
Welcome to the EPPiC Broadcast: Empowering Parents and Protecting Children. Featuring personal stories, breaking news, and insightful commentary, we’ll encourage and inform you on the issue of family and parental rights as you guide and protect that child who is your world.- Parental Rights
Audio Nuggets
Mining for Gold
Audio Nuggets is the Mining For Gold cypher, where we are expressive, independent, and a bit impatient as we struggle for even a taste of justice. It is a place where paradox is visible. Where often two things can be and are true at once. The edges of society exist as protection for some, simultaneously evoking expression.- Child Welfare
- Law & Policy
- Racial Justice
Gray Area
Voices of Monterey Bay
We make documentaries for your ears. We tell the stories of people who are trying to get beyond labels of right and wrong or good and evil to get to something even bigger: redemption. Gray Area deals with some pretty heavy stuff, but it also lightens up when you least expect it. As our co-producer Mara Reynolds says, it’ll make you cry — but in a good way.- Justice
Unbelievably Resilient
Institute for Family & Unbelieveably Resilient
On the Unbelievably Resilient podcast, alumni of foster care offer a safe space to commune, laugh, and share stories of resilience.- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
The Children’s Law Podcast
True North Child Advocates
Welcome to the Children’s Law Podcast brought to you by True North Child Advocates. Our goal is to empower children’s lawyers to help abused and neglected children get home faster.- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
- Law & Policy
The Imprint Weekly
The Imprint
The Imprint Weekly Podcast offers listeners a regular review of news and trends in America’s child welfare and juvenile justice systems, along with other critical services for youth and families.- Child Welfare
- Law & Policy
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