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FMC’s New Internship Program Just Around The Corner

Next week FMC’s new media internship program for current and former foster youth, Guardians of Social Change, kicks off and as the program manager, I couldn’t be more excited.

As a multimedia journalist for FMC I have the privilege of writing about a topic I’m not only interested in, but I know will help make changes in lives of children. Yet watching these fledgling journalists will inspire a new energy within me and this child-first movement because of the inside-out perspective they will bring to the four print stories and video project they create. Having been in foster care, … Read more

Removal: J4 Social Change Session 4

The Fourth Session of Journalism for Social Change explores the toughest decision a social worker will ever make: when to take a child out of his or her home and into the foster care system.

It’s a little after after 4 PM on an average Wednesday at Command Post, the nerve center of the Los Angeles County Department and Children and Family Services’ (DCFS) effort to cope with the relentless tide of child abuse and neglect. Jennifer Lopez, the Acting Executive Deputy Director of the Department, scans an email sent from one of her workers on the front line of … Read more

Journalism for Social Change: Covering Child Maltreatment

During its third session, Journalism for Social Change will delve into the media’s role in covering child abuse and neglect and then move into a substantive conversation about what we actually know. The class and interested members of the public will … Read more