He developed a special community which provides a home for abused children.
He has raised money to create a home for foster children who "age out" of the system.
As an elected official, he has worked to pass legislation that increased aid for child abuse victims and improved monitoring of foster children.
As a trained Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), his wife works daily to help abused and neglected children affix hope to their lives.
He and his wife have served as foster parents for three teens and have started a founation to support foster parenting.
Following the awful death of a D.C. toddler at the hands of her mentally impaired mother, he used all of his considerable legislative skills to create a family court in the District of Columbia, so that children would not be pushed through the system like ciphers, but would be known to a judge who could follow their case over a period of years.
He's working on a bipartisan solution to reform the way gov't finances child welfare.
He hosted a screening of Antwone Fisher (a strory of a boy born in prison and abandoned by his mother to years of abuse, both emotional and sexual, in foster care) with Hillary Clinton for members of Congress.
Who do you think this politican is?
He has raised money to create a home for foster children who "age out" of the system.
As an elected official, he has worked to pass legislation that increased aid for child abuse victims and improved monitoring of foster children.
As a trained Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), his wife works daily to help abused and neglected children affix hope to their lives.
He and his wife have served as foster parents for three teens and have started a founation to support foster parenting.
Following the awful death of a D.C. toddler at the hands of her mentally impaired mother, he used all of his considerable legislative skills to create a family court in the District of Columbia, so that children would not be pushed through the system like ciphers, but would be known to a judge who could follow their case over a period of years.
He's working on a bipartisan solution to reform the way gov't finances child welfare.
He hosted a screening of Antwone Fisher (a strory of a boy born in prison and abandoned by his mother to years of abuse, both emotional and sexual, in foster care) with Hillary Clinton for members of Congress.
Who do you think this politican is?
Are you sure it isn't the Pope?
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