Triumphing over adversity and finding the way out of deep poverty and welfare through advocacy and anti-poverty programs. Dunkle Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir by Shenandoah Chefalo The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls The Invisible Girls: A Memoir by Sarah.

S2 Ep32: Facing The Poverty FEAR: Face Everything And Rise.

S2 Ep 33 Silent No Longer: Championing voice for sexual assault and abuse victims as a process for healing and societal change.

It’s time to change the outcomes for kids in the foster care system.

S2 Ep34: 424,000 Garbage Bag Suitcases and Counting: The journey through foster care is often messy and traumatic.

S2 Ep35: You Got This Homeschool Thing! A conversation on the success of homeschooling and empowering families to teach their children without institutional barriers and limitations.S2 Ep 36 Connection in the Classroom: Building relationships with students by bringing home into classroom through student storytelling and family culture sharing.Come #ListenAndLearn #FosterCareAwarenessĮmail: to Book: Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir Garbage Bag Suitcase A Memoir Shenandoah Chefalo Mission Point Press ( Feb 24, 2016) Softcover 17.99 ( 196pp) 978-1-94 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Chefalo relates the details of her life as representative of the need for significant reformif not total reinventionof the current foster care system. As a community, we have an important role to play in supporting children, youth, and families. Our discussion covers her own experiences of abuse as a child, child welfare systems, adverse childhood experiences, trauma informed/implemented science, advocating for the lost children in the foster care system, and how we learn from our life journey to find those aha moments that become teach-points for others.

Shenandoah, a survivor of the national foster care system, is also author of her memoir The Garbage Bag Suitcase.

In this episode I speak with Shenandoah Chefalo, national advocate for ‘the missing youth in foster care’ who have been institutionalised, trafficked, mislabeled and lost.

Garbage bag suitcase a memoir