THE AUTHOR

Founder and Executive Director of CASA for Children of DC, Shane Salter served as a Chief of Staff for Mayor Anthony Williams in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he supported the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families and Elders in providing oversight for the following District Government Agencies: Department of Human Services, Department of Health, Department of Mental Health, Child and Family Services, Office of Aging, Department of Parks and Recreation, Office of Human Rights, The State Education Office and The Public Library System. He has also served as Director of Foundation Giving where he played an integral leadership role. During his tenure, Freddie Mac and the Freddie Mac Foundation reached a milestone of investing more than $100 million in nonprofit organizations serving children and families.

Prior to the Freddie Mac Foundation, Shane Salter operated in the capacity of National Director at the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities.

He holds an undergraduate degree from Elmira College in Human Services an undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in Health Care Management, and a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership and Management from Webster University. Salter has lectured as guest faculty at numerous universities and conferences.

Salter has provided recommendations for systems reform to Senator Hilary Clinton, Mayor Rudy Giuliani and many other politicians. He’s made significant contributions to legislative and systemic reforms in transracial adoptions, sibling placements and restructuring of services for youth transitioning out of juvenile and child welfare systems. Shane Salter provides practice tips that are published on forgiveness in children, serves on numerous advisory committees. He’s an author of “Restoring Hope” the critically acclaimed depiction of an easy to read journey, shared by countless children who’ve been neglected or abused. Salter offers his perspective from the lens of that child, a teen dad and single parent, adoptive parent of children with special needs, human service administrator and national advocate.

The royalties from the first printing are being leveraged to launch fundraising efforts for the newly established Shane Salter For Kids Foundation. Get your copy of Fostering Hope scheduled for release in local stores in September '09 through Behler Publications.