Help Build the Child Welfare System You Wish Had Existed
No more working in silos. No more reinventing the wheel in every state.
Child welfare does not have a knowledge problem. It has a connection problem.
The strategies, tools, and practice models that could transform how we serve children and families already exist, in pockets, across states, across disciplines. They just never reach each other.
The Child Welfare Innovators Community is a free membership space where foster parents, kinship caregivers, professionals, educators, those with lived experience in the system, and advocates come together to create the strategies, frameworks, and technology tools that make proactive child welfare practice possible at scale.
Benefits of being a member:
You stop carrying this alone. Whether you're navigating the system as a parent right now, raised in foster care yourself, or work inside it professionally, you get direct access to people who understand exactly what you're up against.
Your lived experience counts as expertise here, not just a perspective to be considered alongside the "real" experts. If you've sat across from a caseworker, sat in a courtroom, or raised a child who wasn't originally yours, that knowledge shapes what gets built, the same as a degree or a title does.
You help decide what actually gets built. This isn't a resource library you scroll through. It's a room where the strategies and tools other agencies will eventually use get shaped by the people living this and doing this work right now.
You get ahead of the next crisis instead of reacting to it. The whole point of this community is shifting from putting out fires to building the support that prevents them, and nobody understands that gap better than the families who've fallen through it.
You walk away with something you can use. Every conversation here is built to end in a next step, not just a good discussion, whether that step is for your own family or the families you serve.