About this episode

Rob Scheer discusses his journey and the mission of Comfort Cases to support youth in foster care.

Rob Scheer is the founder and CEO of Comfort Cases, an international nonprofit dedicated to bringing dignity and hope to youth in foster care. His and the organization’s mission is clear: to eliminate the heartbreaking and dehumanizing practice of children being handed a trash bag to carry their belongings when entering the foster care system. Since founding Comfort Cases in 2013, Rob and his team have distributed more than 300,000 backpacks and duffle bags filled with essential and comforting items to youth in every U.S. state, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. In this episode, Rob and I discuss Rob’s journey and how he came around to start Comfort Cases. We also get into the importance of education in the lives of foster children and how a teacher’s kindness helped him in a difficult time. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode179 .

People in this episode

Host: Lily Jones

Guest: Rob Scheer

Topics covered

• foster care
• nonprofit
• education
• youth support
• dignity
• hope

Keywords

• foster care
• Comfort Cases
• Rob Scheer
• nonprofit
• education
• youth
• dignity
• hope

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Comfort Cases

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