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Fostering Change Podcast | Episode 221 | Andrew Bridge

September 3, 2024

Fostering Change Podcast | Episode 221 | Andrew Bridge

Fostering Change Podcast | Fighting the Legal System on Behalf of Youth in Foster Care with Andrew Bridge!

Welcome to Season 6 of Fostering Change!

Following 220 amazing episodes, we are excited about what’s coming this season. We have unique and moving guests, and throughout the season, we invite some of Comfort Cases’ friends to co-host episodes with Rob Scheer. That includes today’s episode, as we are so lucky to have Rita Soronen, CEO of the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption, join Rob to interview our first guest of the season, Andrew Bridge, author of The Child Catcher: A Fight for Justice & Truth.

About today’s first episode of our new season: Rob and Rita have a riveting conversation with Andrew Bridge – about his time in foster care and the battles he has fought for youth in foster care. His new book, The Child Catcher, is the true story of the fight to rescue the children confined to a violent and secretive institution in the rural South.

Proceeds from the book will go to CASA National, State, and local county chapters. Buyers should go to AndrewBridgeAuthor.com and select the CASA chapter of their choice, and 50% of pre-sale royalties will go there.

More About Andrew: Andrew spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care. After aging out, unlike many in foster care, he made it to college, Wesleyan University, and then graduated from Harvard Law School and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship.

He began his legal career representing children against the State of Alabama, where his work resulted in the closure of one of the country’s most notorious psychiatric institutions, the Eufaula Adolescent Center.

Returning to Los Angeles, he became CEO of The Alliance for Children’s Rights, representing children in the foster care system where he grew up.

Andrew co-founded National Adoption Day and New Village Girls Academy for pregnant and parenting teens. As Chair of Los Angeles County’s Blue Ribbon Task Force, he called for an end to the disproportionate removal of Black babies from their mothers.

His memoir Hope’s Boy was a New York Times bestseller and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Most recently, he was a member of the executive management team for Illinois DCFS, and with Arizona as his home, he now serves on the Arizona Foster Care Review Board.

His second book about that fight against Alabama, The Child Catcher, will be released in September.

 

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