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

This is episode two of a two-part conversation with Shrounda Selivanoff. We are continuing our ongoing series on Termination of Parental Rights. If you haven’t already, please listen to the first episode where Shrounda and I talk about her family’s experience of TPR and how they had to fight to maintain custody of her grandson and protect her son’s rights from being terminated. 

In this episode, we talk mostly about House Bill 1747, which was passed in Washington state in 2022. Most fundamentally, the law requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to rule out guardianship before considering Termination of Parental Rights and adoption. While this is largely a policy conversation, we gourd it in what matters the most, which is family, and belonging, and our right to be connected.