Randy Lee Comfort, a social worker, educational psychologist and mother of both birth and adopted children, is founder and Executive Director of ‘Our Place’, a unique centre in Bristol for adoptive and foster families. Here she focuses on how the centre responds to the educational needs of the children and families who attend.
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