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Overcome : stories of women who grew up in the child welfare system

Mahon, Anne, 1965- author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.7 MAH

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SD_ILS:678422

Torn apart : how the child welfare system destroys Black families--and how abolition can build a safer world

Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.70973 ROB

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SD_ILS:664147

Imagining child welfare in the spirit of reconciliation

Badry, Dorothy Eleanor, 1958- editor.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.709712 IMA

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SD_ILS:477337

The sun won't come out tomorrow : the dark history of American orphanhood

Martin, Kristen, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.732 MAR

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SD_ILS:798203

Seeking shelter : a working mother, her children, and a story of homelessness in America

Hobbs, Jeff, 1980- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.592 HOB

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SD_ILS:796458

Safe : a memoir of fatherhood, foster care, and the risks we take for family

Daley, Mark (Foster child advocate), author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

306.874 DAL

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SD_ILS:707195

Relinquished : the politics of adoption and the privilege of American motherhood

Sisson, Gretchen E., author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.7340973 SIS

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SD_ILS:712437

Making space for Indigenous feminism

Starblanket, Gina, editor.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

305.42 STA

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SD_ILS:714520

The Sixties Scoop and the stolen lives of Indigenous children

Bomberry, Andrew, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.734089 BOM

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SD_ILS:642146

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Finding Otipemisiwak : the people who own themselves

Currie, Andrea (Andrea M.), author.

Publication Date

2024

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Call Number

305.897071 CUR

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SD_ILS:785748

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We grow the world together : parenting toward abolition

Schenwar, Maya, editor.

Publication Date

2024

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Call Number

649.1 WEG

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SD_ILS:789011

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Realizing a good life : men's pathways out of drugs and crime

Comack, Elizabeth, 1952- author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

364.8 COM

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SD_ILS:705511

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Hope Through Healing Hands, compiler.

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