Together for Families: Sarah Winograd-Babayeuski

Meet Sarah Winograd-Babayeuski, a passionate advocate for children and families caught up in the foster care system

Sarah founded Together for Families out of her home. With her friends and neighbors, Sarah began supplying needed resources for families in poverty. Now housed at Advocates for Children, Sarah and her small army of volunteers provide the support and resources families need to keep their children. 

In this episode we talk about:

• The real reason so many children are in foster care.
• The risks to children who are placed in foster care.
• The trauma experienced by children and their families.
•  What do case managers need that they don’t currently have.
• What it will take to really support families and reduce the number of children in care.

Get in touch with Sarah: sarah@advochild.org
Find out more about Together for Families: https://advochild.org/together-for-families/

Dr. Ann Price is a community psychologist and evaluator based in Georgia. She works with coalitions, nonprofits, and foundations and helps them use their data to change their communities and helps them better tell their story.

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Music and editing by Zachary Price,  zachpricet@gmail.com

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Sarah's Bio
As a missionary kid, I grew up amongst poverty and oppression in the former Soviet Republic of Belarus. Much of my youth was spent leading and translating for mission teams and serving those most in need alongside my parents. In Belarus, I started a program to bring relief to children fighting cancer whose families were struggling with dire poverty. The program continues

After returning to the states with my husband and daughter, I completed my bachelor’s degree in psychology at Kennesaw State University.

 In 2010, I was awarded the The Dr. Nancy S. King Student of Year Award for community service and activism and was chosen as a student keynote speaker at the Nineteenth Annual Southeast Missouri State University Student Research Conference. 

 In my last year of college, we adopted our son from Russia. At the time, he struggled to ambulate due to cerebral palsy and was dealing with the impact of trauma and PTSD from his time living in an orphanage. 

 In 2018, I volunteered at Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in the Cobb County Juvenile Court, where for two years I advocated for the best interests of children involved in dependency hearings. I was heartbroken to see so many children separated from loving parents for underlying issues of poverty, and I was determined to help save as many families as I could. Chelcie Griffith, an attorney for children started giving parents my cell number, and I worked to ensure that families had the resources they needed to care for their children safely in their home. What started out as a few fam

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