Rise’s Spring 2022 Core cohort began meeting this week, providing training for Parent Advocates working in NYC foster and preventive agencies.
Posts Tagged: Parent Advocates
How Rise is Working to Support Faster Family Reunification — And Shrink the Foster System
June 16, 2021 by
In honor of National Reunification Month, Jeanette Vega, assistant director at Rise, discusses how Rise supports reunification of families separated by the foster system, explains how this work connects to our goal of abolition and highlights Rise resources by and for parents impacted by the system. She also shares a message to parents working to reunify with their children.
Congratulations, June 2021 Core Graduates!
June 08, 2021 by
The Core program ran from February through June 2021 and provided training for newly-hired Parent Advocates working at Graham and Rising Ground in NYC.
Rise Celebrates First Parent Advocate Core Training Graduation
January 27, 2021 by
Congratulations to the first graduates of the Rise Core Training for Parent Advocates!
The program ran from October 2020 through January 2021 and provided training for parent advocates with lived child welfare experience working in NYC preventive agencies.
To My Advocate, I Mattered
May 28, 2020 by
Before joining a peer support group, I would walk into the foster care agency ready to raise hell. I was having real concerns about my case. I didn’t feel that I was getting the information I needed. I was struggling and had no one to talk to. I wore my anger on my face and didn’t think twice about lashing out.
Throughout my life, I have been used and let down and I learned not to … Read More