In this podcast series, Marjorie Aunos hosts conversations exploring how parenting can be done differently and how professionals can best support parents with disabilities. Marjorie is a clinical psychologist, author, and researcher from Montreal who has dedicated her career to working with parents with intellectual disabilities and then also became a parent with disabilities herself.
Child welfare workers engage with children and families during some of the most challenging times in their lives. In this podcast series, we explore the importance of putting on your oxygen mask while helping others. As the metaphor goes, child welfare workers cannot properly support others without their own “air.” It is essential that workers have effective and sustainable support to care for themselves while they also care for families. You’ll hear what the workforce says they need, current research findings, and more on promising models to support worker wellbeing.
The Ending Student Homelessness Podcast Series brings together a variety of leaders committed to understanding and addressing the issue of homelessness, and student homelessness. Homelessness is complex and challenging, and its demise demands the hands, hearts, and minds of many. Each episode of this series interrogates nuances and patterns of homelessness and offer insights from thought leaders in this field. Family and youth homelessness frequently intersect with child welfare and child welfare professionals can learn from the variety of housing professionals in these interviews.