Pain and Promise
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-780361-5 (ISBN)
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A subset of older youth in the American foster care system have been bounced between foster homes, psychiatric hospitals, kinship care, homelessness, and juvenile detention. Deeply wounded by their circumstances and disengaged from society, some are placed in a Residential Treatment Center--the least understood, most maligned, and most expensive level of foster care. Pain and Promise is about these kids, the system "outliers." It showcases their voices, reveals the inside story about the residential treatment programs devoted to their care, and reflects on Nan Dale's 30 years of experience, including her 22 years as CEO of The Children's Village (CV). This book reimagines how to address a myriad of challenges and provide these kids with the opportunities they need and deserve. Aron Myers, a former resident of CV and now an accomplished clinical social worker, helps bring the book's many pieces together. Pain and Promise addresses the question of whether group care programs for foster youth should exist at all. New regulations and family support programs have improved the lives of many kids, but some have been damaged by one-size-fits-all policies. Residential treatment has been their placement of last resort, yet recent legislation is pushing these programs into extinction and offering few good options. This book offers an honest look at residential care because we are serious about providing all children, including those dangerously disconnected from us all, a genuine shot at a safe and fulfilling future.
Nan Dale, As the first women President/CEO at two legendary child welfare agencies, The Wiltwyck School for Boys and The Children's Village, Nan Dale spent 30 years working to improve foster care for thousands of vulnerable children and families. She later led an international public health agency to provide devasted communities with food and water, reaching seven million people annually. She also served as President/CEO of Helen Keller International. Her career at The Children's Village has been featured in The New York Times, NPR America and The World, The International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic Monthly, PBS Bill Moyers Journal, and the Child Welfare League of America's publication on "What Works" in child welfare. Aron Myers, LCSW, is the Chief Leadership Strategist and Principal at A-Game Leadership Group, a former C Level executive and business creator turned leadership coach, speaker, and trainer. His work is based on 25 years working as a senior manager at highly regarded non-profit agencies and his experience as a child of foster care and a staff member and clinical social worker for child welfare. Early in his career, Aron lived and worked with adults with developmental disabilities in an ecumenical community and later, after acquiring his master's in clinical social work at Case Western University, he worked at The Children's Village in New York, where he spent his adolescence and later served as a Division Director, designed several new program initiatives and, ultimately ran all the agency's community-based, family-support programs, the Runaway and Homeless Youth program, and Supervised Independent Living apartments for youth transitioning to adulthood from foster care or related programs. Aron is devoted to supporting people to reach their goals, to build and manage high-performing teams and become high-impact leaders.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Aron Myers |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-780361-X / 019780361X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-780361-5 / 9780197803615 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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