ABC Students Meets with TN Congressman Jim Cooper
American Baptist College’s Chelsea Clark (’18) had the pleasure of meeting TN Congressman Jim Cooper last month in May, National Foster Care Month. Congressman Cooper, a longtime advocate of adoption and foster care reform, believes that government has a role to play in helping the nation’s children. Which is why a few years back he […]
UTRGV students share experiences during Congressional Foster Youth Shadow Program
By Cheryl Taylor RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – JUNE 8, 2016 – Carlie Patrick and Leroy Berrones Soto, students at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, returned from Washington, D.C., feeling they had contributed to improving and strengthening the child welfare system in the United States. Patrick, a junior English/communication studies major, and Berrones […]