The Art of Trauma-Informed Care

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...

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...

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...

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...