Are you running your family’s crisis on absolute empty?

In the relentless, daily scramble to stabilize our grandchildren, fight biased legal systems, and manage caseworkers, we rarely pause to audit our own internal wreckage. We are expected to operate complex trauma-recovery units while quietly grieving our own adult children.

In Episode 128, Laura Brazan steps into the boardroom with Dr. Jill Bryant—a university professor of counseling with 30 years of clinical experience, a veteran researcher, and a kinship grandmother raising her adopted grandson. Together, they pull back the curtain on the institutional "black box" of public welfare, validate the complicated emotional paradox of carrying resentment alongside fierce love, and invite you to turn your private struggles into undeniable, systemic data.

Stop being the silent safety net for the state. It is time to treat your emotional, psychological, and physical health as measurable data that demands legislative and financial investment.

📋 ACTION REQUIRED: Take 10 minutes tonight to complete Dr. Bryant’s national "Subjective Well-Being of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Survey." Your story is the data our advocates need to challenge state implementation flaws, demand CPS community oversight boards, and fight for fair funding.

➡️ TAKE THE SURVEY HERE: https://www.grandparents-raising-grandchildren.org (follow the link on the banner of our homepage!)

✨ In this episode, we discuss:
0:00 - The Unspoken Grief: Loss of an Adult Child
3:10 - Dr. Jill Bryant’s Journey: Hitting the CPS "Buzz Saw"
7:45 - The CPS Black Box: Systemic Abuses & Withheld Rights
12:30 - Disparate Thoughts: Validating Resentment and Love
18:15 - The Missing Data Gap: Why Kinship Families Are Statistically Invisible
23:40 - Structural Failures: Federal Policy vs. State Execution
28:50 - The Credit Barrier: The Student Loan Trap for Older Caregivers
33:15 - How to Secure a "Power Balance Ally" for Court & Meetings

🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED:

Take the Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3CQGN65

Track Dr. Bryant’s published research papers via Walden University’s ScholarWorks database.

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