This panel was moderated by Erin Miles Cloud and featured Keri Hope Richmond, Michael Pinard, Valeria Gomez and Jennifer Mezey. Panelists described how they built community in their own lives and professional roles and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. They also explained how they define community – mostly broadly, as everyone is a…
CFCC’s keynote speakers, Sonia Cohen and Shereen White, left the audience speechless. Cohen shared her brother’s wish that one day, they would all be together again after being separated and put into the foster system due to her mother’s mental health struggles, substance use disorder, trauma and poverty. Cohen described painful experiences of the foster…
CFCC Celebrates Community Changemakers CFCC has found many community partners as we have expanded our mission to include the prevention of unnecessary court system involvement. During this panel, some of our most impactful and innovative partners offered inspiration to the audience by sharing their work to support students, increase family engagement in schools, defend family…
After welcoming remarks from University of Baltimore School of Law Dean LaVonda Reed and an overview of CFCC’s strategic plan from CFCC Executive Director Aubrey Edwards-Luce, the first panel of the CFCC 2025 Symposium gave a truthful accounting of the many systemic barriers that work against family well-being. Experts in law, public defense, mental health…
We celebrated CFCC’s 25th Anniversary on September 10, 2025 and hosted the CFCC 2025 Symposium on What Families Need in the Next 25 years on September 11, 2025, at the University of Baltimore School of Law. We are grateful to our amazing speakers and our thoughtful attendees for truth, inspiration, and healing they brought into…