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InnerViews – “I’ve Lived It Twice”: Experiencing Child Welfare as a Child and a Parent
42 minutes Posted Aug 30, 2026 at 5:00 am.
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Billie has experienced child welfare from multiple perspectives: as a child in foster care and group placements, and later as a parent. In this deeply personal conversation, she joins InnerViews host Ivory Bennett to discuss grief, being unheard in care, motherhood, addiction and recovery, family separation, advocacy, and what children and families truly need from the systems designed to support them. Billie also reflects on why she now feels ready to tell her story—and why lived experience c...