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Together Unbroken focuses on the histories, laws, policies, practices, and judicial cases that influence child welfare interventions and impact families. In questioning the traditional orientation and function of child welfare that is fraught with oppression and family separation, the book promotes a new framework for meeting the needs of children and their families and calls for systemic transformation that enables the ultimate reflection of safety, stability and well-being—the ability to heal. The survivors and advocates who courageously shared their stories show the human face of these often-abstracted issues.

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Sara Block has dedicated her career to supporting survivors of domestic violence and their children. Sara is the Director of Advocacy at Ascend Justice where she focuses on policy and systemic reform that impact families experiencing domestic violence. Sara is an Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Jurisprudence in Child Law program at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, in which she teaches Child Welfare Law and Policy, and Juvenile Justice Law Policy. Sara was a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago with a fellowship focusing on the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare. Sara has received the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network’s Outstanding Partnership Award, the Family Defense Center’s Major Litigation Award for her involvement in Julie Q. v. DCFS, and the Jewish United Fund’s “36 Under 36” award. Sara received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2007, where she was a Child Law Fellow and the Features Editor of the Children’s Legal Rights Journal. Sara received her B.A. degree with honors in American Studies from Northwestern University. She has two daughters and feels honored to be their mother.

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