The Changing Behavior Network-Part 1
In this radio-style podcast, Dr. Sutton interviews Shenandoah Chefalo about her life and her book, Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir. It’s...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jun 27, 20161 min read
Street Beat: Foster Care
his week host Lisa Germani looks at the foster care system and some different viewpoints for #fostercaremonth. WATCH NOW
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jun 23, 20161 min read
We Choose Respect ParentCast (Podcast)
An honest conversation about growing up in foster care and trying to learn forgiveness and healing along the way. Plus, what you can do...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jun 22, 20161 min read
Journey for Truth (Podcast)
Shenandoah found herself in foster care at age 13 after her mother never came home. She speaks of her experience, the trauma that many...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 30, 20161 min read
The Rags to Niches Podcast
Do you ever feel like you're out of place? Hiding a secret about who you really are? well if so, this episode is for you. Shenandoah grew...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 20, 20164 min read
Reaching the Fourth "R": Schools and Classrooms Make the Difference
I am very excited to bring you my first guest blog. In full disclosure, I met Cathy Anther-Fialon, at a webcast on a seminar regarding...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 11, 20161 min read
Fox 47 Lansing
Kristen Beat speaks to Shenandoah Chefalo about her new book Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir and advocating for a better foster care...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 2, 20161 min read
Residential Schools: A Promising Alternative
In her book, Garbage Bag Suitcase, former foster youth Shenandoah Chefalo describes her childhood of abuse, followed by three years in...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 27, 20161 min read
Bringing Inspiration to Earth (BITE) Podcast
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A MEMOIR (foster care awareness) with Shenandoah Chefalo Shenandoah's dreams for a stable childhood were shattered:...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 18, 20161 min read
Journey of Hope with Rodney Mathers (Podcast)
Welcome! It has been brought to my attention recently that an amazing number of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and woman are...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 13, 20163 min read
Healing Trauma: One Grocery Store Line at a Time
There’s a women standing in front of me at the grocery store. I can see her fidgeting, shifting her weight back and forth. She glances my...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 7, 20161 min read
The Mimi Georges Show-The Broken Foster Care System
Shenandoah Chefalo was abused and neglected as a child by her mother and step-father. At the age of 13, she was abandoned so she...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Mar 21, 20161 min read
The Experience 50 Podcast- Telling the World Your Painful Secret
We all have small secrets. Shenandoah Chefalo had a big painful secret, that she only shared with her husband… after the wedding. Her new...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Feb 2, 20161 min read
You Gotta Believe-Podcast
This evening we interview Shenandoah Chefalo (author of the recently published memoir “Garbage Bag Suitcase”) about a blog she recently...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jan 26, 20162 min read
How Grief Goes Unnoticed in Foster Children and the Underlying Trauma it Can Cause
I have attended several funerals during my lifetime. At one, when I was still in high school, I remember watching the mother of a friend...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Dec 20, 20152 min read
The 180 with Jim Brown on CBC Radio
The state of group homes in B.C. and Alberta has reached crisis level, with a recent B.C. government report revealing problems that range...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Nov 9, 20152 min read
Foster Care Crisis Begs for Cooperation
There are a number of organizations in the United States and around the globe that work for the betterment of foster children, but in...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 21, 20154 min read
Have you Asked? A Simple Request for Social Workers, Counselors and Those Working with Kids
For over twenty years, I said nothing. I hid my status as a foster care survivor from almost everyone I knew. The label “foster kid” had...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 15, 20153 min read
No Demand, No Supply: Before we reform the Criminal Justice System, we need to take a closer look at
Earlier this week, President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 people who he said were serving sentences disproportionate to their...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 10, 20152 min read
Understanding the Outcomes of Foster Care
Did you know that we have over 400,000 children in the foster care system each day in the United States? It's appalling and most States...
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