Re-imaging Child Welfare: Discussing the Latest Michigan Task Force on Foster Care

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