To improve outcomes in complex problems around child welfare, incarceration, and crime we journey upstream to examine the Family as the institution we should protect and seek to strengthen.
Interviewed:
Department of Children and Family Services Mischa Martin
Chairperson of Parent Counsel and Harding University professor Dr Andrew Baker
Tenth District Circuit Court Judge Shanice Johnson
Restore Hope Community Development Manager Karen Phillips
100 Families White Co Coordinator Dana Baker
Restore Hope Sebastian Co Case Mgr Courtnee Harlan
Restore Hope Executive Director Paul Chapman
Narrator Charles Newsome
Producer Renie Rule
Producer Ed Lowry
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09/27/22 • 54 min
Smart Justice - What About the Kids
Transcript
00;00;01;17 - 00;00;17;06
Mischa Martin
No kids should be raised by the state. But sadly, we have some kids who are growing up in foster care. Can you imagine being 21? Have no connections. Have been raised and moved place to place and not have a family.
00;00;17;19 - 00;00;39;09
Andrew Baker
And there's the analogy used in the child welfare space that says When a family is on the table, we're going to do all we can to save that family. Just like if it was a human being on an op
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