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Child Welfare Systems: My Child Was Taken with Lawanda
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In this episode we hear from a birth parent who lost one of her children to foster care how daunting the experience with DHS was an how, the more she advocated for her child's needs, the worse the experience became. Our guest, Lawanda, is a single mother of three. "I'm college educated and hard working. I'm a survivor of DHS. My story is a little different, you see DHS wasn't always the beast they became. In the beginning they were a source of help. I can't explain how or why they changed but one day I was enemy and all eyes were on me. I went from being a concerned, kind, caring parent to someone who was unstable and a risk to her own children. There were lies told to paint a picture of someone I wasn't. However, I was smart cookie and no one's fool. I found a different set of resources and fought back. In the end of I was victorious and cleared my good name. I wouldn't wish what happened to me on my worst enemy but I came out on the other side."
Resources mentioned on the show:
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Every Mother's a Working Mother's website
Originally aired on February 7, 2020
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