Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 35, Number 1 by Channing L. Collins Child welfare leaders are being asked to implement sweeping reforms—expand prevention services, strengthen safety practice, reduce time to permanency, and address racial disparities—while navigating persistent workforce instability. Much of the conversation has focused on burnout and caseloads. Far less attention has been paid

Published in Children's Voice, Volume 34, Number 2 by Morgan Pardue-Kim, Kerri Evans, Zayna Lyon, and Linda-Jeanne M. Mack Authors’ note: Policies impacting children who are unaccompanied immigrants are rapidly changing. These policy decisions impact not only these youth, but also the people and organizations that serve them. The policy information in our article is

Published in Children's Voice, Volume 33, Number 2  by Chloe Baier It’s a Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore City. Kiki, a fifth-grade student at Yorkwood Elementary School in northeast Baltimore, hops on the Bridges bus with a small group of other students from Baltimore City elementary schools to head to The Bryn Mawr School, a

Published in Children's Voice, Volume 34, Number 1 by  Shanika Lavi Wilson and Quincy Dinnerson Among the key challenges in child welfare today is the impact of trauma on children and families. While trauma-informed care (TIC) provides essential frameworks for understanding and responding to trauma, it often overlooks a crucial factor: racial trauma. This

by Shannon Deinhart, Stephanie Beleal, and Cass Freeland Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 33, Number 1   All children have family, and we can find them if we try. All kin have value, regardless of their ability to serve as the primary caregiver of the child. All children deserve to remain connected to their culture, community,

Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 32, Number 1 by Susan Savage Imagine receiving a call in the middle of the night asking you to take in your one-year-old grandson. You are single, 62 years old, make $38,000 annually, and must work tomorrow. What do you say? In the United States, our youngest children are the

Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 31, Number 1 Parents as Teachers’ Black Doulas Group Lends Support to Moms’ Birthing Process by Eric L. Clark What is a doula? A doula is a trained professional who provides emotional, physical, and educational support to an expectant mother during pregnancy, labor, and in the weeks following birth. As

Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 30, Number 1 Applying a Universal Precautions Approach to Residential Programs for Girls: The My Life My Choice Prevention Solution Model by Lisa Goldblatt Grace Girls in communities across the United States, growing up in a variety of life circumstances, are at risk of being commercially sexually exploited. This vulnerability

Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 29, Number 2 It is an honor to introduce this special issue of Children’s Voice magazine: CWLA, Universities, and Community Collaborations: Past, Present, and Future. Our goal has been to highlight articles contributed by CWLA member agencies, university faculty, scholars and students, and community organizations. In this special issue,

Published in Children’s Voice, Volume 29, Number 1 by Felicity Sackville Northcott and Elaine Weisman In 1924, a group of social workers sat down and resolved “…that skilled case work service to families in trouble…should be extended to operate at long distances and across frontiers.” This simple but forward-thinking idea is the cornerstone of the