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Welcome to the By Their Side Podcast, where we explore the intricacies of foster care and child welfare advocacy through candid discussions with industry professionals and people with lived experience.
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The Advocate I Never Had with CASA Volunteer Joan Ulsher (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Joan Ulsher is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer who experienced foster care as a child, and the advocate she is today is the one she needed back then. In eight years she has served 36 children, often choosing the most demanding cases. On this episode, she talks with host Micaela Tracy about sibling visits, the silence that counts as a clue, and why the person who keeps showing up is the one a child remembers. Her ask is simple: if this is not your calling, find
Cultural Identity Is Safety with Turquoise Skye Devereaux, MSW (opens the original)
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Episode Summary When a woman she had just met told Turquoise Skye Devereaux, "I can tell, because you eat like you went to boarding school," she heard how a history she never lived still shaped the way she moves through a day. Turquoise is Salish and Blackfeet, a social worker by training, and the founder of Indigenous Skye, where she has spent more than eight years helping schools, agencies, tribes, and child welfare systems create culturally safe spaces. She talks with host Micaela Tracy about
The Long Game of Advocacy with Jamole Callahan (opens the original)
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Episode Summary When Jamole Callahan was fifteen, he realized the adults were meeting every few months to decide his future, and he was never in the room. He spent six years in foster care across nine homes and aged out at eighteen into the kind of instability that pushes so many young people straight into homelessness. Twenty years later, the rooms have flipped: lawmakers now invite him in, and he has helped shape the federal housing policy that gives young people leaving care a longer runway o
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