In this episode, host Valerie Frost speaks with Daniela Molina, lived experience leader and financial empowerment coach at the Liberation Family Resource Center in Richmond, Virginia. Liberation is part of the Family Resource Center cohort within the Thriving Families, Safer Children initiative, and it exemplifies what it means to be truly embedded in the community.

Daniela shares how Liberation uses a two-generation approach to create a trusted and consistent presence for families. Liberation not only meets immediate needs like food, housing, and financial coaching, they create long-term leadership and empowerment with the families in their community. In a powerful story that begins with a child referring their own mother to the center, we hear how deep trust and psychological safety can open doors that traditional systems often miss.

Daniela and Valerie explore how building authentic, trauma-informed relationships helps families feel safe enough to return, not just for support, but to give back, lead, and create change. This episode lifts up why community-rooted Family Resource Centers are at the core of transformational support.

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Here are some additional resources Daniela would like to share with you. 

• Liberation Family Resource Center
• Thriving Families, Safer Children | familiesforwardva
• Family Resource Centers: Working with African American Families
• NFSN | Standards of Quality

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