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
Stories Are Data With A Soul and Will Transform Systems with Dr. Jessica Pryce
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This episode of Community In-Site is a re-release from Season 2 with Dr. Jessica Pryce. Dr. Pryce is a research faculty at Florida State University and author of Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services. Dr. Pryce is a nationally recognized thought leader on child welfare workforce development. In this conversation, Valerie and Dr. Pryce talk about the agent–advocate–activist journey framework in Broken that challenges professionals to reflect on their role within systems and consider what it means to move toward advocacy and transformation.
Drawing from her experience as a Black woman working in child welfare, Dr. Pryce explores how the experiences of people impacted by the system can serve as critical data for change. She reflects on the discomfort, tension, and responsibility that come with questioning long-standing practices and assumptions.
This conversation doesn’t offer a simple path forward. Instead, it invites listeners to think more deeply about power, perspective, and what it takes to evolve, both personally and institutionally.
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Here is a few resources that Jessica wanted to share with you.
- To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation | Jessica Pryce
- Publications — Sharing Power | Shifting Mindsets
- Sharing Power | Shifting Mindsets
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