A Soft Place To Land

A teenager reports abuse and ends up in a DSS office, exhausted, scared, and forced to overhear strangers retell her trauma while they hunt for placement. That moment is hard to shake and it is also the spark behind Lily Pad, a nonprofit building calm, home-like rooms inside Department of Social Services offices so kids in foster care have a safe place to wait, sleep, eat, and breathe. We’re joined by Jennifer Tice, a former labor and delivery nurse, longtime foster parent, and the executive...