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In this episode of the Wonks at Work podcast, we speak with Paul Chapman of Restore Hope about efforts to reduce incarceration and the need for foster care by using technology and existing community resources to help families move from crisis to stability.
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Come Healing: Paul Chapman
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Helping a community heal is hard work. That’s especially true when lives and families are disrupted by incarceration, dependency, the need for child welfare interventions, or other crises. Fortunately, there are people and organizations committed to making that healing possible. One of those groups is Restore Hope, an Arkansas-based organization that has developed a model to help families move from crisis to stability and onto careers using existing community resources. To learn about how it’s grown from serving a handful of Arkansas counties to locations across multiple states and parts of Canada, as well as what’s coming next, we’re joined on this episode of the Wonks at Work podcast by Paul Chapman, director of Restore Hope.
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