Webinar: Your Family or Its Health: Intersections Between the Healthcare and Foster Systems

Creating the conditions in which families and communities can thrive means keeping families together and reimagining what support looks like, how harm and accountability are understood and addressed, and who should be leading the way forward.  

Black communities, communities of color, and those living in poverty are overrepresented in many systems, including the foster system, that claim to support and protect.

This webinar, the fourth in our Spotlight on the Foster System series, focused on intersections between the healthcare and foster systems. Watch a recording of the webinar below, or download the slide presentation.

Panelists included:

• Lisa Sangoi, Co-Director and Co-Founder of Movement for Family Power 
• Dr. James Ronayne
• BeKura Shabazz, Founder and President of First Alliance Consulting LLC, The Criminal Injustice Reform Network, and Mothers Against Mandatory Minimums
• Elizabeth Brico, freelance writer and journalist

This webinar was the first in a four-part series produced by the Shriver Center to spotlight various aspects of the foster system. See also:

Moving from Why to How: Parent Leaders’ Perspectives on the Movement for Child Welfare Justice

Policing by Another Name Mandated Reporting as State Surveillance

The Carceral Web: How the Foster and Criminal Legal Systems Perpetuate Injustice