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Stranger Danger takes you on a riveting ride of the Los Angeles juvenile justice and foster care systems through the eyes and experiences of sixteen-year-old, Charity. Charity is a bright and studious girl who wants nothing more than to escape into the fantasy world of her favorite novels. However, she finds herself entangled in a reality that punishes poverty and exploits innocence. After escaping the dangerous life of gangs and drugs that proved not as friendly and familial as she had hoped, Charity resorts to stealing food and clothing to address the deep poverty that she and her family were experiencing. After being caught stealing a pack of underwear, Charity finds herself handcuffed, sentenced, and spending the remaining years of her childhood in and out of juvenile hall and foster care. While in foster care, Charity is exploited by the very people in charge of protecting her and who she trusted was providing her a way out of poverty. In this sweeping narrative, Charity weaves her horrific story of experiencing systems benevolently disguised as protection with the harsh realities at the intersection of poverty, systemic injustice, exploitation, and judicial punishment.

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"Charity Chandler-Cole is a fierce expert and advocate for children and families impacted by child sexual exploitation, and the foster care and juvenile justice systems. As a sought-after speaker and social-justice activist, Charity uses her many platforms and voice to influence and impact social structures, policies, and systems that have negatively and disproportionately impacted and oppressed vulnerable communities and people.Charity serves as the CEO of CASA of Los Angeles, Court Appointed Special Advocates for youth impacted by the foster care and juvenile justice systems. In addition to filling this significant leadership role, Charity serves as a commissioner with LA County Children & Families, where she is co-chair of its Racial Justice Committee. She sits on the African American Advisory Board to District Attorney George Gascon. Charity was a founding board member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), serving eight years on the board for the non-profit that works to end mass incarceration in California.Charity is completing her doctorate degree in educational leadership for social justice at her alma mater, Loyola Marymount University. She is a wife and mother to four beautiful children and was, until recently, a relative caregiver and legal guardian to her nephew for more than 11 years.Having harshly experienced both the juvenile justice and foster care systems as an adolescent, Charity uses her powerful story of redemption and triumph to inspire people under the mantra, ""If Charity can do it, then so can I.""https: //www.charitychandlercole.com/"""

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