Community In-Site
Community In-site is about the family well-being movement. Hosts Tecoria Jones and Elliott Hinkle bring their lived expertise with the child welfare system as well as their professional insights to each episode. We'll be talking to leaders, advocates, and community members who are working from the grassroots to the grasstops on strategies to invest in the well-being of families and communities in order to prevent child welfare involvement. The show will feature stories and lessons from community sites (featuring Thriving Families, Safer Children sites) that make the family well-being movement real and personal. Each episode will unpack a specific topic (e.g. racial equity or community partnerships) and what can be learned from the challenges and successes. The hosts hope to leave listeners with something they can take into their own work to help grow the movement in their community.
For more information about the family well-being movement and Thriving Families, Safer Children initiative you can visit, Thriving Families
Community In-Site
The Evidence Says Investing in Families Improves Well-being and Prevents Foster Care with Clare Anderson
Clare Anderson is a Senior Policy Fellow with Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago. Clare was previously Deputy Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she provided leadership for federal programs and co-led developing and implementing a national well-being policy. She is a national thought leader on economic and concrete supports as core to the prevention of child welfare involvement. Discover how decades of research reveal that when families receive the financial stability they need, their risk of involvement with child welfare decreases significantly.
In this week’s episode, Elliott and Tecoria talk with Clare Anderson about how concrete and economic supports promote family well-being. This conclusion is backed by over 40 years of compelling evidence and intersects with both the lived experience movement and recent conversations around differentiating poverty from neglect. What the data shows, combined with what we hear from parent advocates, is that economic instability is a root cause issue of child welfare involvement. The data also informs practical policy and funding solutions to keep families together in their homes, supporting them rather than intervening with foster care. Listeners will walk alongside Clare as she describes how states like Kentucky, Indiana, and Wisconsin are taking action by putting the research into action and meeting families' needs.
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To learn more about Clare and Chapin Hall you can visit their website. Chapin Hall
Here are a few resources that Clare would like to share with you.
Chapin Hall resources on Economic and Concrete Supports
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