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This month’s Speaking for Kids podcast from Michigan's Children features an important conversation about Michigan’s foster care system and how new recommendations from a bipartisan task force could raise needed reforms. “Re-imaging Child Welfare: A Discussion on the latest House Task Force Report on Foster Care” brings together three guests with insider knowledge on Michigan’s foster care system. Joining host Matt Gillard are Shannon Urbon, executive director of The New Foster Care, and Alexis and Justin Black, Michigan natives who spent portions of their childhoods in foster care. They recently wrote the memoir, “Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Care Kids Beat the Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love.”
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