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Pain and Promise : Reimagining Success for Youth in America's Group Foster Care System
Pain and Promise : Reimagining Success for Youth in America's Group Foster Care System
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Author(s): Dale, Nan
ISBN No.: 9780197803615
Pages: 320
Year: 202607
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 42.57
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

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 regardednon-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.



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