Born into a dysfunctional family in Oakville, Ontario, in the 1950s, Jo-Anne Shaw was forced to leave home at sixteen to escape her abusive father. A high-school dropout, she would go on to endure two abusive marriages and years of serious depression.
When she became a single mother of four, she knew something had to change for her children's sake.
Defying all the odds, Shaw went back to school, got her Master of Social Work, and became...