Community In-Site
Community In-site is about the family well-being movement. Hosts Tecoria Jones and Elliott Hinkle bring their lived expertise with the child welfare system as well as their professional insights to each episode. We'll be talking to leaders, advocates, and community members who are working from the grassroots to the grasstops on strategies to invest in the well-being of families and communities in order to prevent child welfare involvement. The show will feature stories and lessons from community sites (featuring Thriving Families, Safer Children sites) that make the family well-being movement real and personal. Each episode will unpack a specific topic (e.g. racial equity or community partnerships) and what can be learned from the challenges and successes. The hosts hope to leave listeners with something they can take into their own work to help grow the movement in their community.
For more information about the family well-being movement and Thriving Families, Safer Children initiative you can visit, Thriving Families
Community In-Site
A Two-Generation Approach to Family Resource Centers with Daniela Molina
In this episode, host Valerie Frost speaks with Daniela Molina, lived experience leader and financial empowerment coach at the Liberation Family Resource Center in Richmond, Virginia. Liberation is part of the Family Resource Center cohort within the Thriving Families, Safer Children initiative, and it exemplifies what it means to be truly embedded in the community.
Daniela shares how Liberation uses a two-generation approach to create a trusted and consistent presence for families. Liberation not only meets immediate needs like food, housing, and financial coaching, they create long-term leadership and empowerment with the families in their community. In a powerful story that begins with a child referring their own mother to the center, we hear how deep trust and psychological safety can open doors that traditional systems often miss.
Daniela and Valerie explore how building authentic, trauma-informed relationships helps families feel safe enough to return, not just for support, but to give back, lead, and create change. This episode lifts up why community-rooted Family Resource Centers are at the core of transformational support.
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Here are some additional resources Daniela would like to share with you.
- Liberation Family Resource Center
- Thriving Families, Safer Children | familiesforwardva
- Family Resource Centers: Working with African American Families
- NFSN | Standards of Quality
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