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Podcast: Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive
Episode: Overcoming Challenges With Rita Soronen
Description: For more than 30 years, Rita Soronen has worked on behalf of abused, neglected and vulnerable children, providing leadership for local, state and national efforts, working to improve the juvenile justice and child welfare systems while striving to assure safe and permanent homes for North America’s children.Leading the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a national nonprofit public charity, since 2001 and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption-Canada since 2004, Ms. Soronen works to find permanent families for the more than 135,000 waiting children in North America’s foster care systems. Under her leadership, the Foundation has significantly increased its gran...