Ruth White

Co-founder and Executive Director

Ruth White is one of the nation’s leading experts on the nexus between housing policy and child welfare.  She is co-founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare and former director of Housing and Homelessness for the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA).  At the Child Welfare League, she co-edited the landmark issue of the League’s journal, Child Welfare, documenting the extent to which children are needlessly held in foster care because their parents lack decent housing. Through White’s advocacy, over $100 million in new funding for the Family Unification Program has been made available for families and youth in child welfare since 2009.

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Adaora Onuora

Fellow and Communications Consultant

Adaora Onuora is a double major in criminal justice and communications in her junior year at Bowie State University in Maryland. Adaora aged out of foster care and is a current participant in HUD’s Family Unification Program and the Family Self-Sufficiency Program and is on the home ownership track with plans to purchase her own home next year.

Jamole Callahan

Director of Training and Development

Jamole Callahan is a child welfare trainer, consultant,  motivational speaker, and curriculum writer. He has also served as the Director of Training and Development for ACTION Ohio. Jamole spent six years in foster care where he experienced multiple moves before he emancipated at age 18.  Jamole works closely with legislators and federal partners in Washington D.C. to help shape policy to better serve our youth in care. He also sits on various Boards that promote better outcomes for current and former foster and adoptive youth. Jamole has a vision for empowering resource parents, caseworkers and foster care youth and alumni to succeed.

Betsy Cronin

Director

Olivia Capasso

Program Coordinator for Head Start on Housing

Shalita O’Neale

President

Connie Lassandro

Vice President