Michael Leach

Amber’s Husband| Aiden's Dad| Executive In Residence, Think Of Us| Partner at Momenta Advisors| Senior Fellow, Center for the Helping Professions|

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

3/ 68% of SC 4th graders can't read proficiently. 19% of kids live in poverty. Uninsured children are going UP not down. These aren't separate problems they're symptoms of the same broken system. A governor who fixes behavioral health fixes all of it. 38th to 25th. Let's go.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

1/ SC ranks 38th in child & family well-being. The next governor with the right agenda could change that. Mobile crisis. Medicaid rates. Real behavioral health investment. All in. For everyone. #SCGov #SouthCarolina

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

2/ How do we measure child well-being? 16 indicators — poverty, reading levels, health insurance, teen births, family stability. Behavioral health touches EVERY single one. Fix the system, you move the needle across the board. That's the multiplier effect.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

@fitsnews @RomReddySC @RalphNorman It takes one to know one.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

@CABar @Arbys I was like what do I order? Where are the meats?

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

@Arbys in ballentine ran out of roast beef. I never thought I’d hear such craziness.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

If you ever wanna see an endless stream of South Carolina governor ads and attacks on their competitors just put on Dog TV on YouTube. Apparently every Boykin Spaniel and Labrador retriever in the state is undecided.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

I wouldn’t hire them. Did anyone look at this Ai photo before letting this go out the door?

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

SKILLS THAT PAY OFF.

[The Imprint @TheImprintNews]

On this episode of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, Sixto Cancel talks about the loss of culture many youth in foster care experience. Click the link below to listen to the full episode now. 

https://t.co/oxH0D7YFBs

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

Which people do you want leading South Carolina? The ones arguing politics or the ones in shelters at 2am helping oxygen dependent families during Hurricane Helene, reopening child care after COVID, and helping feed families when people were struggling? I know my answer.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

@AGAlanWilson It is wild watching some of the best qualified people for these jobs get attacked over politics ignoring the actual work they have done for South Carolinians. During Hurricane Helene, people needed help & some leaders showed up at 2am and 4am without hesitation. That matters more

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

We can keep hoping things get easier for families, but hope alone is not a plan. Families need leaders willing to lower all types of costs, strengthen schools, more affordable housing, improve child care, and build systems that actually work for the people depending on them.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

Love how SC business leaders and politicians behind the scenes are like, “You all are doing great work, we love this direction,” then in public it suddenly becomes, “The system is broken. They need reform. They’re failing families.”

Amazing what happens when votes get involved.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

Cut caseloads in half, increased kinship, reduced congregate care 80% to 12%, cut foster care in half, closed a $75M deficit, ended charging parents for services & child support in closed cases, #2 in permanency, turnover under 10%, record adoptions, millions more for prevention.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

Fewer people on SNAP≠fewer people hungry. Something to ponder.

4.8% decline or 25,000 fewer SC’s on SNAP in 4 months.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

Honored to keynote on, “One System. Many Experiences. Why perspective matters in child welfare” @tncasa Conference then joined Jed Dews for a workshop on “Building a Kin-First Culture: Practice, Policy and Possibilities” with @CharlestonHALOS at the @CWLAofficial conference

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

@fitsnews @RomReddySC @murrellsmith And most of us knew there “cabal”was a lie from day 1. Their AI findings were a pure hoax. You believed in them. Remember you wore their tacky, cheap trucker hat.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

Grateful to see the continued momentum behind @ACFHHS A Home for Every Child - and to have contributed to the recent dialogue alongside partners across the field discussing this work.

Appreciative to be in the dialogue. We had 700 + signed up to participate across the country.

[Michael Leach @hardyleach]

I noticed the last three failed to congratulate the South Carolina Woman’s basketball team for making to the finals. No effort at all. Maybe they hate sports. Can we stop pretending they are even in the race.