Episode 43: A Conversation about Racism with LaTasha Watts
Fostering Change
English - June 09, 2020 01:23 - 43 minutes - 31.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsGovernment Business Non-Profit foster care foster children adoption dcfs child advocacy charity non-profit comfort cases rob scheer foster care system Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 42: Jamerika Haynes
Next Episode: Episode 44: Foster Mom & Author Keri Vellis
In this episode, Rob and Dana welcome LaTasha Watts, founder of The Purple Project, back to the podcast. LaTasha grew up in foster care and now hosts an annual conference for former youth in foster care. She is also and advocate for children in foster care. This week we wanted to shift focus to the larger issue facing our country right now - systemic racism and injustice. LaTasha talks about how she and her family have experienced racism and how she believes we can work towards making a change. Rob also shares some of the instances in which he's had to deal with racism as a father of four black children.
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