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Roseburg’s Parent Advisory Council: Experience Into Practice: PART II
Season 1, Episode 57 — February 2026
27:54
Last week, in the first part of our two part conversation in Roseburg, we talked with Tabitha Stevenson and Jessica Hunter about the district’s Parent Advisory Council. How it creates a formal space for parents who have experienced Child Welfare and Self-Sufficiency to directly shape how the work is done. We focused on practical impact rather than theory — from trauma-aware meeting spaces and fewer locked doors to faster, more humane changes driven by parent feedback.
Where last week focused on visible outcomes, this week focuses on mindset, capacity, and the quiet choices that turn collaboration into trust.
Tabitha reflects on how feedback moves quickly into action — not by accident, but because there’s a shared expectation that meetings lead somewhere. She points to changes that may seem small but are deeply meaningful in practice: celebratory dismissal dockets, affirmations for parents, and rituals that mark progress rather than shame. For her, these moments matter because reunification isn’t just a legal outcome — it’s a life-altering achievement that deserves dignity and recognition.
Jessica widens the lens to what isn’t always captured in a playbook: leadership capacity, emotional readiness, and the discipline of showing up every month without exception. She describes how this work reshaped her leadership — learning to sit with grief, acknowledge harm without defensiveness, and follow through even when the work is relentless. The episode also touches on how lived experience informs staff training, where parents name words and actions they remember for decades, shaping engagement long after a case ends.
What makes this week different is its focus on relationship as infrastructure. Trust isn’t built through redecorated rooms or shared meals alone — it’s built when leadership presence is non-negotiable, when commitments are honored, and when parents experience their voices not as symbolic, but as consequential. The episode closes, as always, with reflections on Oregon — and on Douglas County in particular — as a place where people rally around one another in moments of crisis, proving that systems change most when relationships come first.
Celebrity PSA for the Day: “Knight” and Day: ODHS Progresses with AI (11:38)
Credits
Hosts: Dr. Bethany Grace Howe — Communications
Shenika — Community Partnership Coordinator, District 10
Produced by: Dr. Bethany Grace Howe
Contact: Questions / feedback: [email protected]
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By Oregon Department of Human ServicesSeason 1, Episode 57 — February 2026
27:54
Last week, in the first part of our two part conversation in Roseburg, we talked with Tabitha Stevenson and Jessica Hunter about the district’s Parent Advisory Council. How it creates a formal space for parents who have experienced Child Welfare and Self-Sufficiency to directly shape how the work is done. We focused on practical impact rather than theory — from trauma-aware meeting spaces and fewer locked doors to faster, more humane changes driven by parent feedback.
Where last week focused on visible outcomes, this week focuses on mindset, capacity, and the quiet choices that turn collaboration into trust.
Tabitha reflects on how feedback moves quickly into action — not by accident, but because there’s a shared expectation that meetings lead somewhere. She points to changes that may seem small but are deeply meaningful in practice: celebratory dismissal dockets, affirmations for parents, and rituals that mark progress rather than shame. For her, these moments matter because reunification isn’t just a legal outcome — it’s a life-altering achievement that deserves dignity and recognition.
Jessica widens the lens to what isn’t always captured in a playbook: leadership capacity, emotional readiness, and the discipline of showing up every month without exception. She describes how this work reshaped her leadership — learning to sit with grief, acknowledge harm without defensiveness, and follow through even when the work is relentless. The episode also touches on how lived experience informs staff training, where parents name words and actions they remember for decades, shaping engagement long after a case ends.
What makes this week different is its focus on relationship as infrastructure. Trust isn’t built through redecorated rooms or shared meals alone — it’s built when leadership presence is non-negotiable, when commitments are honored, and when parents experience their voices not as symbolic, but as consequential. The episode closes, as always, with reflections on Oregon — and on Douglas County in particular — as a place where people rally around one another in moments of crisis, proving that systems change most when relationships come first.
Celebrity PSA for the Day: “Knight” and Day: ODHS Progresses with AI (11:38)
Credits
Hosts: Dr. Bethany Grace Howe — Communications
Shenika — Community Partnership Coordinator, District 10
Produced by: Dr. Bethany Grace Howe
Contact: Questions / feedback: [email protected]