by Pat Cinquini | Feb 4, 2021 | Advocacy
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. Yet,...
by Pat Cinquini | Oct 13, 2020 | Advocacy, Community Education, News
For the majority of voters, the judicial races, aka all those unfamiliar names at the bottom of the ballot, get either a default vote of “yes,” “no,” or they skip over them, saying, “I don’t know anything about them.” Local judges have as much impact on your life, if...
by Pat Cinquini | Jul 13, 2020 | Advocacy, Community Education, News
Though part of our country’s history has been men and women fighting and sometimes dying, for our voting rights, voting hasn’t always been an easy process. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln couldn’t cast his own ballot to be re-elected because his home state of...
by Pat Cinquini | Jun 24, 2020 | Advocacy
“Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in.” –Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Shelter has joined 51 other child welfare agencies in Illinois to form the Child Welfare Coalition...
