Kids & Their Parents

Meet Marilee Sherry and Valerie Rhodes, two incredibly accomplished child welfare specialists from the Child Welfare Truth Telling Collective.   Want to know what happens to a child when a parent is incarcerated?  Merilee, Val and our friend Louise Leonardi give us a heartbreaking picture, and an exciting alternative.  We reflect in this episode on why, despite decades of advocacy, carceral systems and child welfare systems seem so resistant to change and the pathways between and across the two systems.

Trigger Warning:  Contents may be upsetting.  Take care.

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Theme music this week is Daddy's Little Girl.  Listen on Paint in the Forest from Pros and Cons Prison Arts Program.  Recorded in Joyceville Institution.