From Foster Care to CNN Hero: Rob Scheer on Trauma, Grit, & Changing the System
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Rob Scheer shares his journey from foster care to becoming a CNN Hero and discusses the importance of advocacy for children in the system.
Send us Fan Mail CNN Hero. Featured on HBO Max’s Somewhat Familiar with Pedro Andrade. A national advocate transforming the lives of children in foster care. In this powerful episode of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast, host, connection strategist, and author Jodi Hope Grinwald sits down with Rob Scheer, founder of Comfort Cases. Rob’s story begins with a painful reality experienced by far too many children entering the foster care system—arriving at a new home carrying their belongi...
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