Raising Our Gifted Children with Sara Troy and her guest Buddy Thornton, on air from September 26th
Buddy Thornton and spouse, Sharon, plus their large extended four-generation family have lived in Arizona since the late 1980s. Buddy is a Vietnam-era veteran, earned his BS in Allied Health Sciences (UW-Milwaukee 1984), his MA in Human Services Counseling and Executive Leadership (Liberty University 2014), and is a doctoral candidate pursuing his Human Services doctorate. Buddy has numerous certifications and actively serves on multiple boards in an advisory capacity.
Buddy is the creative mind behind the Slippery Slope series and the author of Book I, Contemporary Society Through the Lens of Applied Ethics, and Book II, Contemporary Society Through the Lens of Applied Morals. Book III, The Optimal Journey to Oneself-Teen and Young Adult Edition, and Book IV, The Optimal Journey to Oneself-Parent-Teacher-Caregiver Edition continue the series.
Buddy brands as “The Positive Social Change Agent Pro” and has been invited to be a Keynote Speaker and Program Presenter (Conflict Management, Parenting Dynamics, Cross-Cultural Topics), with one notable global invitation to Da Nang Vietnam in November 2017 and invited to speak on cultural topics at the IIRP World Conference in Bethlehem, PA-October 2019. Buddy is a featured regular participant on the Impact of Educational Leadership podcast hosted by Isaiah Drone III.
Buddy is one of our esteemed authors and their contributions to child care is abundant: click on picture.to see them all
We are currently in the process of raising funds to publish this important book. Your support will enable us to bring this project to life and make a positive impact on the lives of children and families. Your contributions will go towards editing, design, printing, distribution, and marketing of the book in all formats, book, e-book, audio. We believe that by coming together as a community, we can make a significant difference in addressing the challenges our children face and advocating for the changes they need.
If you’re interested in supporting our project, please visit [our-forgotten-children-book] to learn more about how you can contribute and be a part of this important endeavor. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of our children and create a brighter future for the next generation.
Raising Our Gifted Children with Sara Troy and her guest Michaela Gaffen Stone (Mikki), on air from August 8th
I have been a child advocate since I was a child myself, living in uncertain and frequently unsafe circumstances. I learned early on to gauge people’s moods and anticipate their behaviors in order to know when to hide and when to run to keep myself safe. As I grew older, my sense of justice and a need to protect others became quite fierce. Then I had children. We traveled the world encountering different cultures, learning the norms, rules and restrictions placed on the child and dictating the role of the parent. I intentionally parented my own children differently from my peers and have since made it my mission to help other parents learn ways to do better with their children than they received from their own parents. This is not about blaming anyone for what they cannot help, it’s about cycle breaking.
Born in England, I am a lifelong learner and nomad. Having lived in eight countries to date, I consider myself to be a Global citizen – where I come from is a story, not a place. Home is wherever I am, right now. I took my expertise in tropical diseases nursing from London, UK, to Bangladesh to volunteer in an orphanage, later singlehandedly running a High Commission’s medical clinic and caring for upwards of 300 people. I became a Montessori assistant teacher in Belgium so I could work in the same system my kids were in. I studied Buddhism and mindfulness with monks in Singapore. My quest for more took me from Bhutan, India, Ladakh, and Sikkim, to Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. I took my love for learning to college in the USA, becoming a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst. The science of behavior change ignited in me a deeper understanding of human potential. Diving into Doctoral studies fueled my desire to share my extensive knowledge of human behavior with people open to receiving all that I have to offer. Throughout my travels, raising my two sons to be responsible global citizens was a priority and sharing what I learn though experience and study is what I am here for.
MIKKI HAS JOINED US ON OUR FORGOTTEN CHILDREN’S BOOK, COMING 2024
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Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy and her guest Gisele Huff, on air from October 11th
Our education of our children should be our most invested commodity in any country; we are letting our youth down. Gisele Huff who was an educator for 40 years, she speaks on what needs to be changed and in how we the parents and as a community can make those changes.
Gisèle tells how she embraced the value of education, earning her PhD from Columbia University and launching a career in K–12 education that spanned decades. Her tireless work to revolutionize the school system changed the lives of countless children and gave rise to the integration of technology into the curriculum. Having worked with intellectual and political giants on both sides of the aisle, including Milton Friedman, Jeb Bush (R), former governor of FL and Bob Wise (D), former governor of WV, Gisèle repeatedly champions the idea of collaboration. It was Jeb Bush who named her the “First Lady of Blended Learning.”
However, it was her late son Gerald who introduced Gisèle to the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI), a government program in which every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly, with no “strings attached.” As automation replaces our workforce and the idea of technological unemployment is a not-so-distant threat to our economy, Gisèle began to recognize that the “American Dream” will not be obtainable in the future as it was for past generations. At the age of 72, Gisèle began to embrace progressive values so whole-heartedly that she is now an ardent promoter of UBI and the founder of The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity.
Gisèle Huff was born in 1936 in Paris to working-class Russian Jewish immigrants. She moved to the US when she was eleven and went on to earn a PhD in political science from Columbia University. For more than two decades, Gisèle served as the executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation, which invested in nonprofit, national organizations that worked on transforming K–12 education. She received the Thomas A. Roe Award and the iNACOL Huff Lifetime Achievement Award. She is deeply involved in raising awareness about technological unemployment and promoting universal basic income, the legacy of her late son. She is the founder of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity. She lives in San Francisco, California. This is her first book.
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Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy on the Igniting the hearts of our forgotten children, with her guest Novelette Bowen , MHS. on air from May 31st
What is my story ,why do I wish to share?
I’ m a committed foster mom who’s mission is to help reshaped the educational landscape for youth in foster care one youth at a time for them to become educational empowered and live their dreams because IT’S POSSIBLE!
Why I wish to share their stories its to educate the public and communities about their circumstances because they matter and their stories matters and it’s meant to be told for them to get the help that they need! Only 1 in 5 read at grade level and only 1 in 10 are at grade level in math power is in igniting the massive!
Sharing advance communities awareness! No changes ever happened without awareness and participation this is why it’s important to share their stories to help them gain the skills they need in their transformational journey to better future!!
We are on 5 sites and 16 audio and 2 video platforms as seen here.
Ruby’s Foster Village services benefits at risk foster youth who’re transitioning out of FC aged 14-25 years old the focused of our mission is to help FC youth solidify their educational dreams The educational facts about foster youth are sobering RFV is dedicated to utilize education as a tool to help foster youth change their educational outcomes through educational support services and mentoring as they transition out of the system into adulthood! Because it’s possible!!!
We’re hosting our first 5k walk/run for education all proceeds raised will provide 50 youths with educational tutoring and mentoring ,a pathway to high school graduation or GED ,preparation for college entrance or vocational school and ongoing support to college graduation or vocational certification for the 2022-2023 school year
We’re changing the world one child at time
I am on this journey because of my like experience I chose to be the bridge that connects educational support services and opportunities for at risk youth who were abused and neglected and is transitioning out of the foster care system and emancipated youth who doesn’t have ongoing support! My believe in the power of having a good education is who I am it was instill in me from a young age from my mom who was abused and neglected and was denied the opportunity to get an education but she had the ability to understood the power of what a good education will do and insured that I obtained a good education! Helping at risk youth to obtain a good education and become empowered and live their dreams will be my life long mission because the cost of not having an education is Detrimental it per-long generational cycle of poverty!!!!!!
I am Novelette Bowen A Education Advocate and Emotional Wellness Coach the founder of Ruby’s Enlightened Path, DBA Ruby’s Foster Village a 501c3 approved nonprofit organization for at risk youth who’re transitioning out of foster care and emancipated for foster you aged 14-25 years old!
I’m passionate about inspiring and motivating at risk youth to utilize education as a tool for them to become educationally empowered to create wealth and change their generational cycle because it’s possible!
I’m a proud mother a foster mother to many foster teens I know the daily struggles and challengers of not having a good education to economically sustain yourself!
Working with at risk youths in my program I have seen eye contact that wasn’t there before and smiles they established relationships and connections with others they developed confidence self esteem and self worth return from alternative schools to regular education graduates from high school and earned their GED with honors!
SIGN P FOR THE WALK HERE OF JUST SUPPORT WITH A DONATION, EVERY DROP HELPS A CHILD.
We’re hosting our first annual walk/run 5K fundraiser event all proceeds raised will support Our goal for the 2022 ,2023 upcoming school year to provide educational support services and opportunities for 50 youth youth who’re transitioning out of care and emancipated youth to graduate from HS prepared to pursue college and secondary education programs with ongoing educational services and support until graduation! Please get involved! your pledge or donation will provide tutoring mentoring scholarships for food and housing insecurity no youth in HS or college should have to worry about what they’re going to eat where they’re going to sleep on have to dropped out of school because of insufficient food and housing!
If you’re local please join us June 25,2022 early registration start 7a the race start at 8a! If you’re not local please donate no matter how small your donation impact change!
Free 5K
Swage bags ,
T shirts
Water
breakfast Bar
free BookClub for our teens we meets every Monday from 6p-8p via zoom!
Parent Talk support group we meet every third Tuesday of the month Via zoom 8p-9pm to learn more visit www.rubysfostervillage.org
Malcolm X a former foster child said “ Education is a passport to the future the future belongs to who prepared for it today.
Our services and strategic collaboration help our youth to set and achieved their educational goals advanced their personal development and leadership skills get physical & mental health treatment to break away from poverty homelessness high rate of unemployment Recidivism and sexual trafficking!
Your cash donation allows us to provide basic services. food, and supplies to these at-risk youth, as well as provide scholarships and housing for emancipated foster youth wishing to pursue their dreams of a college degree and so much more.
$25 pays for one hour of tutoring
$50 provides a Blessing Box filled with enough food and toiletries for a week
$75 pays for a Comfort Case full of clothing, shoes, and linens
$125 enables a former dropout to take the GED
$500 pays for 1 semester of college textbooks
$1,000 pays for a 9 weeks of a college meal plan
$3,000 pays for one semester of community college
$5,000 provides a 1-year scholarship for dormitory housing
$11,000 pays for a fully year of college tuition and room and board for a former foster child
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Raising Our Gifted Children with Sara Troy and her guest Mark Wilhelmsson, on air from February 1st
Our child safety journey began just after our son Markus turned two years old. He was sitting in his highchair eating some fresh fruit that I had cut up for him for breakfast, but little did I know that just moments later, everything would change. As I was watching him eat, all of a sudden, he just froze. Everything stopped. I instantly knew something was very wrong, and then I realized he couldn’t breathe. He was choking. He dipped his head slightly and looked up at me, and in his eyes—the only way I could possibly begin to describe it—was a look of silent desperation and panic. What I felt at my core while looking in his eyes was the sense that he was calling out to me to save him. But here’s the thing: I didn’t know how. Fact is, I had never learned a core set of fundamental life-saving skills that we all should know as parents, but the reality is, most parents simply do not know any of them. I certainly didn’t… but I decided to make it my mission to change that as parents need to be prepared for the unexpected—because our children deserve it!
“I believe our children are silently begging us as parents to lead them, to be their source of protection and safety, to hold them up. They’re right, and they deserve it! Our primary responsibility is to protect and keep our children safe. It’s #1.”
On behalf of my wife Krischelle and everyone at Our Child’s Keeper, I would like to invite you to join our community and worldwide movement, because the more knowledge and life-saving skills you are empowered with as a parent, the safer your children will always be!
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