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
How Transitional Housing Can Help Youth Build Wealth with Mike Williams
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When most people think about transitional housing for youth aging out, Mike Williams thinks about home ownership as a way to help them build generational wealth. Mike is the CEO of Dreams and Success Homes and SMART DREAMS Inc. Some would say that what Mike is doing is innovative and exactly what young people need, while others might say that mixing foster youth, real estate, and profit introduces new risks. How can innovation introduce healthy and necessary risk without putting young people in a situation where they don’t have the support they need to succeed. Mike knows this tension because he lived it when he transitioned out of foster care.
In this episode of Community In-Site, host Valerie Frost talks with Mike about these perspectives. Mike walks through the mechanics of his housing and mentorship model, including how homes are financed, how relationships are structured, and the safeguards built in to protect young people as they transition to adulthood.
This conversation doesn’t resolve the debate. Instead, it asks harder questions about risk, accountability, and what it takes to build new solutions.
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Here is a site where you can learn more about Mike's work.
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