A book review of:

Growing Up in the Care of Strangers

Waln K. Brown and John R. Sieta, contributors and editors

William Gladden Foundation Press, 2009

Reviewed by Mark Freado

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The editors of this book, Waln Brown and John Sieta, are well known to many of our colleagues in the reclaiming youth network. They have compiled a very compelling collection of stories from others who have shared experiences in the foster care system. Brown and Sieta also contributed their own stories to the nine others that make up this book. Foster care is used in a general sense in this book and includes various ways that publicly established systems of care approached services for these children who had been displaced or were in danger.

The dates have been selected for our 2010 seminar events, and we wanted you to be the first to know! Make plans to join us at one or both of the following events:

• Spring Seminar (April) in Victoria, British Columbia

• Summer Seminar (June) in the Black Hills of western South Dakota

We are pleased to feature a Guest Article from Board Member Azim Khamisa.  Azim is the Chairman, CEO & Founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF) and Founder and National Director of the Constant and Never Ending Improvement (CANEI) program; as well as a nationally-renowned author and speaker.  Azim has served on the Board of Directors for Reclaiming Youth International since 2007.  Azim's amazing life story places him in an unique position to speak on the topic of Restorative Justice!

IT IS TIME

BY: Azim Khamisa

It is time. With a society ready to shift to a foundation of innocence and peace, it is finally time for our society to shift from punitive justice and embrace restorative justice.

Dr. Inge Bolin, 2009 recipient of the Circle of Courage Award at the Victoria Seminars, is back from another trip to Peru where she lives and works with the people of Chillihuani who live high in the Andes.  Dr. Bolin is a Research Associate in Anthropology at Malaspina University - College in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

She wrote: "I am back from Peru.  It was wild and wonderful.  Our health station is being built, our health campaigns are going well, a new reforestation project  begins, and my research on melting glaciers and water scarcity indicates that we all must work together to avoid an environmental disaster.