A Families Fight for Parental Rights with Shrounda Selivanoff: Part One

In this episode we return to our ongoing series on Termination of Parental Rights. This is part one of a two-part conversation with Shrounda Selivanoff. Shrounda is the Chief of Parent Representation Initiatives with the Washington State Office of Public Defense. She has a long history as an effective policy director and respected advocate for parental rights. She also brings her own personal experience of CPS, child welfare, and TPR as a mother and a grandmother. In part on of our conversation, Shrounda shares her story of fighting for her son’s rights as a parent and for her grandson’s right to know and be connected to his family. In part two of our conversation we’ll dive into the policy she worked in WA and the implications it has in the ongoing conversation about a world without TPR.