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This week on Family Policy Matters, Mitch Prosser and Adamo Manfra take a closer look at education in North Carolina as it relates to school choice, parental rights, and technology. 
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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Erica Spivey, Senior Director of Training and Church Mobilization at Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina, to discuss their new initiative to equip churches to care for the nearly 11,000 children in foster care across the state. 
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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Hadley Heath Manning, Senior Fellow at Independent Women and author of "The Dating Decade" report, to discuss the challenges that are resulting from the modern dating culture.
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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Kenneth Finn, a pain medicine physician and author of Cannabis in Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach, to discuss a scientific look at the real-life harms that come with the legalization of marijuana. 
More about Dr. Kenneth Finn
Dr. Ken Finn is a pain medicine physician with over 30 years of clinical experience in Colorado Springs, who in 2025 relocated to Arizona to continue his practice in comprehensive pain management. 
He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as pain medicine, and holds certification in cannabis science through the University of Colorado. He serves as an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine's Colorado Springs branch. 
Dr. Finn is the former president of the American Board of Pain Medicine and has served on its examination council for more than 25 years. 
He has played an active role in cannabis and drug policy, including service on Colorado's governor's task force for Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana, and four years on the state's medical marijuana scientific advisory council. 
He has been invited to present before the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, testified before the Canadian Senate on marijuana legislation, and addressed the New York State Assembly on cannabis policy. In 2025, he was one of 25 experts selected from over 43,000 applicants to testify before the U.S. Department of Justice on marijuana rescheduling. 
He is also the editor of Cannabis and Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach, a multi-author medical textbook with contributors from four countries, and co-founder of the International Academy on the Science and Impacts of Cannabis, where he continues to work on global drug policy issues, including collaboration with United Nations bodies.

This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family's Mitch Prosser and Adamo Manfra take a deep dive into the importance of parenting, both for the health of the family and for the health of the community.