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Debbie Ausburn is a social worker turned lawyer who has worked with youth-
serving organizations for more than 40 years. Starting in her teens, she has
served as a camp counselor, juvenile court probation officer, group home
parent, criminal prosecutor of crimes against children and litigation attorney
advising youth-serving organizations throughout the United States. Her most
important challenges, however, have been parenting foster children and
stepchildren. She has never had biological children, but she has collected
seven children and ten grandchildren. She has put the lessons that her
children taught her in her recent book Raising Other People’s Children: What
Foster Parenting Taught Me about Bringing Together a Blended Family.
