The Art of Trauma-Informed Care

First Step: The SPCA In the early part of the 1800s, Henry Bergh created The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) which p

Most people are only one or two personal connections from a foster child but don't know it. Statistically, there is one foster child for

I was speaking to an elementary teacher the other day and she provided some insights into how her job relates to the child welfare...

It has been a busy and crazy month. As we come out of Foster Care Awareness Month, it feels like a whirlwind. In early May, we received...

MAY IS FOSTER CARE AWARENESS MONTH Here is How YOU can help In 1988 with the help of Senator Strom Thurmond, President Ronald Regan...

Saint Paul, MN: The 27th Annual Midwest Book Awards finalists announced. The awards recognize quality in independent publishing in the...

I have written before about how I was a self-help book addict. I read every book I could find, re-reading several of them and even going...

For more than 20 years, well into her adulthood, Shenandoah Chefalo wouldn’t breathe a word about growing up as a foster child, concerned...

A NATION TRIGGERED Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves to Bi-Partisanship It’s official: in the United States we have a new...

Writing for this blog is sometimes problematic for me. I try to be as transparent as possible and talk about the things that are truly...

HILLSDALE – With the goal of making life better for citizens in their community, Doug and Susan French of Hillsdale have delved into...

No one comes into foster care because of a pleasant situation. Shenandoah Chefalo is the author of Garbage Bag Suitcase, a memoir of...

I have never really been good at relationships. Intimacy scares me, and trust is something that is earned. When I travel now, speaking...

We all have experienced many difficult things in our lives. Often we allow an event or our environment to define who we are. When this...

I make no bones about it, as a foster child, I don’t think I was an easy person to get along with and I certainly wasn’t trying to make...

KiwaniTalk is produced by memers of the Kiwanis Club of Dearborn, Michigan. Recently they asked me on to talk about my book, Garbage Bag...

In this episode of I Want To Know we welcome in author and survivor of the foster care system Shenandoah Chefalo. In her new book Garbage...

Plagued and embarrassed by her name, made worse by a nomadic childhood that made it impossible to build lasting relationships, Shenandoah...

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