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Cheri Williams: When the Savior Story Breaks — Child Welfare, Power & Who Owns the Story
Cheri Williams joins 100 Stories for a conversation about child welfare, saviorism, institutional power, lived experience, fear, compliance, and who gets to define a family’s story.
Cheri entered child welfare believing she was doing noble work: helping save children from harmful circumstances.
Over time, that understanding began to change.
After years inside the system, she began questioning whether intervention always produced the better outcome she had assumed it would — and whether professionals like her were sometimes participating in harm while believing they were helping.
That forced…
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