Family Voices United launches regular "Share Your Perspective" questions on timely topics relating to child welfare. This new paper asks experts with lived experience across the country, " What services... (Read more)
Family Voices United launches regular "Share Your Perspective" questions on timely topics relating to child welfare. This new paper asks experts with lived experience across the country, " What changes... (Read more)
Since 2020, lived experience experts, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs and the William T. Grant Foundation have worked in partnership with more than 50 individuals representing a... (Read more)
How can policies and programs work better for young people? We talked with young people who face these challenges (and people working at youth-serving organizations that connect young people to... (Read more)
There is increasing interest in engaging lived experts in the development of law, policy, training, and organiza- tional leadership. Before diving in, it is important to think through the why,... (Read more)
Family Voices United asked current and former foster youth, parents, and kinship and relative caregivers: “ Sometimes a parent's mental or behavioral health (including addiction) leads to a child... (Read more)
On March 11th, 2021 Family Voices United held a peer learning session with parents, kinship caregivers, and foster youth alumni, on the Family First Prevention Services Act, New Opportunities in... (Read more)
Listen as Family Voices United members share their experiences with racism and discrimination in the child welfare system, their vision of an anti-racist system. Click here to listen... (Read more)
Family Voices United asked current and former foster youth, parents, and kinship and relative caregivers: “ What is needed to ensure school reopenings are safe and equitable for children... (Read more)