Community supports to prevent child welfare involvement: Focus on Family Resource Centers
By
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
By
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...
The Partnership for America’s Children is pleased to welcome four new board members. Paige Clausius-Parks, Richard Kennedy, Keesa Smith, and Holly Welborn begin their terms of service in January 2024....
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...
Photo by @PatrickPerkins via Unsplash Three Partnership members share creative strategies they’re using to build financial independence and weather the frequent storms of nonprofit funding cycles. One feature that all...
Equitable Leadership Transitions in Child Advocacy
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Fawn Pattison
Photo by mauriciokell via Pixabay Each month the Partnership for America’s Children hosts “Partnership Peer Exchange” sessions, where seasoned leaders from our network get together with Partnership members from across...
Engaging Boards in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work
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Fawn Pattison
Partnership members come together quarterly to share strategies for advancing racial equity in their organizations. In September, Larry Marx of The Children’s Agenda (NY) and Paige Clausius-Parks of Rhode Island...
Building a community of courageous leaders for kids
By
Marquita Little NuMan
Image courtesy of Michelle Hughes. Just a month into my tenure as executive director, I had the opportunity to share space with child advocacy leaders from all over the country...
Image courtesy of Jennifer Missouri Photography. “Everything we do in the child advocacy movement is in service to the families and the children,” says Marquita Little Numan. “So everything that...
How child advocacy organizations tackle the biggest challenges in youth organizing
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Fawn Pattison
Image courtesy of Michigan’s Children. Organizing with youth can be a powerful way to achieve lasting policy change that directly benefits children in your community. But it also brings a...
