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\"woman<\/a>Brenda Thompson | James Foster \/Sun-Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Brenda Thompson, founder and CEO of E.M. Branch and Associates and Ph.D. student at the Online Campus, sat down with the Chicago Sun Times for a Q&A interview<\/a> about the current expansion efforts and inspiration behind her growing community social services agency that provides mental health services and supervised child visitation programs.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brenda Thompson | James Foster \/Sun-Times Brenda Thompson, founder and CEO of E.M. Branch and Associates and Ph.D. student at the Online Campus, sat down with the Chicago Sun Times for a Q&A interview about the current expansion efforts and inspiration behind her growing community social services agency that provides mental health services and supervised child visitation programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1051],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSunday sitdown: Aiming to offer more for those in need - Insight Digital Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brenda Thompson, founder of E.M. 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