Tips for collaborating with business leaders to advance children’s issues – an interview with Sara Watson Photo by Artem Kniaz via Unsplash “Chambers of commerce are a terrific source of...
Photo by Mahmud Ahsan via Unsplash Building team culture and connection has gained so much importance for organizational success since remote work became the norm. Many organizations had to make...
Image by Lee Murry from Pixabay. Welcome to another episode of the Partnership for America’s Children blog! Today, we’re diving headfirst into a topic that’s music to our ears: how...
Photo by Claudia Raya on Unsplash. This blog is the first in a two-part series on Public Policy for Economic Mobility. The Biden administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic created...
SPARC Releases Resources on Preventing Child Welfare System Involvement and Harm to Children
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Lisa Pilnik
Families, advocates, and policymakers agree on the importance of preventing child welfare system involvement—and the circumstances that lead to it—but communities still struggle to identify, prioritize, fund, and implement specific...
Advancing the well-being of children around the nation together
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Marquita Little NuMan
Image courtesy of Hawai’i Children’s Action Network. At the Partnership for America’s Children, we measure our impact by the tangible difference our members make in the lives of children across...
Partnership for America’s Children Nurtures a New Generation of Advocates and Leaders
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Mark Swartz
Cross-posted with permission from Early Learning Nation. Marquita Little Numan took the helm of Partnership for America’s Children last August, just a few weeks before the Executive Directors Retreat of this national...
Community supports to prevent child welfare involvement: Focus on Family Resource Centers
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Lisa Pilnik
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Child welfare advocates have long pushed for deeper investments in strategies that can prevent maltreatment from occurring rather than simply respond after children...
2024 Legislative Preview: Hot Topics in Child Advocacy
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Fawn Pattison
Photo by Philip White via Unsplash As states roll into the 2024 legislative sessions, we took a look at our members’ legislative agendas to find out what issues child advocates...
SPARC 2023 Convening: Working and Learning Together for Transformational Change in Child Welfare
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Lisa Pilnik
In December, SPARC members had the opportunity to convene in Baltimore at the Annie E. Casey Foundation offices. (State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center, or SPARC, is a network of...
