The Art of Trauma-Informed Care

In this radio-style podcast, Dr. Sutton interviews Shenandoah Chefalo about her life and her book, Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir. It’s...

his week host Lisa Germani looks at the foster care system and some different viewpoints for #fostercaremonth. WATCH NOW

An honest conversation about growing up in foster care and trying to learn forgiveness and healing along the way. Plus, what you can do...

Shenandoah found herself in foster care at age 13 after her mother never came home. She speaks of her experience, the trauma that many...

Do you ever feel like you're out of place? Hiding a secret about who you really are? well if so, this episode is for you. Shenandoah grew...

I am very excited to bring you my first guest blog. In full disclosure, I met Cathy Anther-Fialon, at a webcast on a seminar regarding...

Kristen Beat speaks to Shenandoah Chefalo about her new book Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir and advocating for a better foster care...

In her book, Garbage Bag Suitcase, former foster youth Shenandoah Chefalo describes her childhood of abuse, followed by three years in...

Garbage Bag Suitcase: A MEMOIR (foster care awareness) with Shenandoah Chefalo Shenandoah's dreams for a stable childhood were shattered:...

Welcome! It has been brought to my attention recently that an amazing number of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and woman are...

There’s a women standing in front of me at the grocery store. I can see her fidgeting, shifting her weight back and forth. She glances my...

Shenandoah Chefalo was abused and neglected as a child by her mother and step-father. At the age of 13, she was abandoned so she...

We all have small secrets. Shenandoah Chefalo had a big painful secret, that she only shared with her husband… after the wedding. Her new...

This evening we interview Shenandoah Chefalo (author of the recently published memoir “Garbage Bag Suitcase”) about a blog she recently...

I have attended several funerals during my lifetime. At one, when I was still in high school, I remember watching the mother of a friend...

The state of group homes in B.C. and Alberta has reached crisis level, with a recent B.C. government report revealing problems that range...

There are a number of organizations in the United States and around the globe that work for the betterment of foster children, but in...

For over twenty years, I said nothing. I hid my status as a foster care survivor from almost everyone I knew. The label “foster kid” had...

Earlier this week, President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 people who he said were serving sentences disproportionate to their...

Did you know that we have over 400,000 children in the foster care system each day in the United States? It's appalling and most States...