An Interview with our New Executive Director Kisha Shanks
Join Rich Gehrman for this week's podcast featuring a special interview with Kisha Shanks, the new Executive Director of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota.
Kisha Shanks is an accomplished maternal and child health consultant, speaker, and author. With over 14 years of experience in maternal and child health, she has been a dedicated advocate of child-centered programming and policy. For 13 years, she successfully owned and operated a home-visiting program for pregnant and birthing families in Milwaukee, focused on improving birth outcomes and increasing parental capacity by prioritizing maternal and infant mental health. Her successes led to her consulting numerous community-serving organizations and government agencies throughout Wisconsin and across the country, by way of public speaking, program evaluation and workshop facilitation. Kisha has worked tirelessly at the intersection of social work, public health, and mental health, to promote racial equity in all spaces affecting children, using both her lived experiences and academia to inform, inspire, and empower individuals into action that leads to change.
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Our work for vulnerable children is made possible through support from listeners like you. Thank you.
Please help support our work for vulnerable children at www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate (http://www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate)
Rich Gehrman is the founder and former Executive Director of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota. He is the 2021 winner of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Minnesota’s 2021 "Mark Proctor Hero for Children Award."
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential.
If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them.
Visit us at safepassageforchildren.org (http://www.safepassageforchildren.org/)
26 Jul 2023
A conversation with SUD expert Peter Hossler about the current state of recovery programs and the planned Minnesota state task force on prenatal substance use
Listen to our podcast for a conversation with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) expert Peter Hossler about the current state of recovery programs and the planned Minnesota state task force on prenatal substance use.
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Our work for vulnerable children is made possible through support from listeners like you. Thank you.
Please help support our work for vulnerable children at www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate (http://www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate)
Rich Gehrman is the founder and Executive Director of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota. He is the 2021 winner of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Minnesota’s 2021 "Mark Proctor Hero for Children Award."
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. Visit us at safepassageforchildren.org (http://www.safepassageforchildren.org/)
22 Jun 2023
Critique of Minneapolis Police Response to Domestic Violence Has Implications for Children
This Global Rights for Women study (https://replica.startribune.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=9ec906cc-417f-4a2b-9355-224ee0d8f469) of the Minneapolis Police Department found that officers seldom pursued perpetrators of domestic violence once they left the scene, and the Department makes far fewer reports and arrests than is typical nationally. Our study of child fatalities (https://safepassageforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Gehrman-R.-Karrow-M.-2023.-Minnesota-Child-Fatalities-from-Maltreatment-2014-2022.pdf?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=2c516230-80cc-4f73-900b-b7f5df4820a6) similarly showed that failed responses to domestic violence contributed to 28% of children’s deaths. Join Rich Gehrman for a full discussion and analysis in this week's podcast.
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Our work for vulnerable children is made possible through support from listeners like you. Thank you. Please help support our work for vulnerable children at www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate (http://www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate)
Rich Gehrman is the founder and Executive Director of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota. He is the 2021 winner of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Minnesota’s 2021 "Mark Proctor Hero for Children Award."
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them.
Visit us at safepassageforchildren.org (http://www.safepassageforchildren.org/)
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