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Start here if you are leading culture change, supporting staff well-being, or navigating conflict. These three posts teach the core tools we use in training and implementation.
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Journey of Hope with Rodney Mathers (Podcast)
Welcome! It has been brought to my attention recently that an amazing number of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and woman are...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 18, 20161 min read
The Mimi Georges Show-The Broken Foster Care System
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...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 7, 20161 min read
You Gotta Believe-Podcast
This evening we interview Shenandoah Chefalo (author of the recently published memoir “Garbage Bag Suitcase”) about a blog she recently...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Feb 2, 20161 min read
How Grief Goes Unnoticed in Foster Children and the Underlying Trauma it Can Cause
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...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Jan 26, 20162 min read
The 180 with Jim Brown on CBC Radio
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...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Dec 20, 20152 min read
Foster Care Crisis Begs for Cooperation
There are a number of organizations in the United States and around the globe that work for the betterment of foster children, but in...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Nov 9, 20152 min read
Have you Asked? A Simple Request for Social Workers, Counselors and Those Working with Kids
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...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 21, 20154 min read
No Demand, No Supply: Before we reform the Criminal Justice System, we need to take a closer look at
Earlier this week, President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 people who he said were serving sentences disproportionate to their crimes. They were all serving time for drug-related offences. After he commuted their sentences, President Obama called for reform to the criminal justice system. He was quoted as saying, “In far too many cases, the punishment simply doesn’t fit the crime.” President Obama is calling for a fairer and more equitable criminal justice system. This
Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 15, 20153 min read
Understanding the Outcomes of Foster Care
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 are seeing spikes in the number of referrals they are getting this year, and it is estimated that by the end of the year 2015 we will have close to half a million children living in foster care. What perhaps is even more astonishing than the pure volume of children living in care are the atrocious outcomes that face them once they age out of
Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 10, 20152 min read
Introducing Garbage Bag Suitcase
LESSONS FROM THE ROAD, A FOSTER CARE MEMOIR Garbage Bag Suitcase is my forthcoming memoir of my wholly dysfunctional journey through a...
Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 9, 20152 min read
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