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"Premature aging of children’s brains isn’t a positive development. Before the pandemic, it was observed in cases of chronic childhood stress, trauma, abuse and neglect. These adverse childhood experiences not only make people more vulnerable to depression, anxiety, addiction and other mental illnesses, they can raise the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other long-term negative outcomes."
Thank you for your generous GivingTuesday support!
With your donations, CWLA raised funds on Giving Tuesday that will help youth, parents, and caregivers who have been touched by child welfare attend/present at CWLA’s 2023 national conference, as well as serve on important working committees. Moving forward, your support will help ensure more responsive and equitable child welfare policy, practice, and research.
Thank you! We’re very grateful!
There’s still time to donate this GivingTuesday! We’re getting closer to reaching our $20,000 goal. Donations will support scholarships so that youth, parents, and caregivers impacted by child welfare can attend our national conference and serve on important working committees. This will give them a voice at the national level, helping to strengthen policy, practice, research, and more. Donate -- or add to your existing donation -- this evening! And thank you!
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If you haven’t yet donated on this GivingTuesday, do so now to help us reach our $20,000 goal!
If you already gave, consider adding to your donation so more youth, parents, and caregivers touched by can have a seat at the table -- attending, presenting, and networking at our national conference, as well as serving on CWLA's vital working committees to strengthen child welfare policy, practice, and research. Thank you!
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We're well into GivingTuesday and are aiming to raise $20,000 to help youth, parents, and caregivers touched by attend our national conference and serve on working committees to strengthen policy and practice.
Share and donate today!
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Hooray! It’s GivingTuesday!
We’re aiming to raise $20,000 in 24 hours. Funds will help youth, parents, and caregivers who were involved in child welfare attend CWLA’s national conference and serve on working committees around racial equity, child protection, and more. Their experience, wisdom, and talent will help to strengthen child welfare policy and practice.
Please share and donate today!
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GivingTuesday is coming up fast! Help us raise $20,000 for scholarships so that youth, parents, and caregivers involved in can attend our national conference and serve on working committees. Research affirms that the field will benefit from their experience, wisdom, and talent, strengthening child welfare policy and practice. Donate on Tuesday, November 29.
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Let's make 2023 a better year for children!
The work of CWLA frequently is requested not only by U.S. officials and child welfare professionals, but also by foreign governments, nonprofits, and other child- and family-serving organizations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. They all have drawn from CWLA’s standards of practice, publications, advocacy work, and research to develop and improve their child welfare services.
To help support our work, consider a GivingTuesday (Tuesday, November 29th) donation!
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GivingTuesday is a day when people all over the world give to worthy nonprofits. Give to CWLA as we work to protect and help children, families, and communities flourish. Donate on November 29th!
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GivingTuesday is almost here! This is a global day of giving and CWLA has something special lined up for this year’s campaign. Hint: Youth, parents, and caregivers touched by will be heard and heeded as we work together to protect and help children to flourish.
Join the movement to donate on Giving Tuesday, November 29.
https://www.cwla.org/giving-tuesday/
We're pleased to announce publication of "Becoming the Change We Seek: Stories from CEOs in the Voluntary Sector," a collection of essays “focused on—and dedicated to—the executive and voluntary leadership of child and family services organizations. Its purpose is to highlight the unique history, capacity, contributions, and future promise of this extraordinary and longstanding movement” (Kate O’Day, foreword). Eight CEOs of child- and family-serving organizations discuss their career journeys, lessons learned, and hopes for the future of child welfare.
To download and purchase a digital PDF:
https://tinyurl.com/2dxu7443. A print option is available for a minimum order of 25 copies; contact
[email protected] for details.
Contributors include co-editors Kate O'Day (Gateway) and Tammy Mello (The Key Program Inc.); Ronald Richter (JCCA); Shaheer Mustafa (HopeWell Inc.); Lydia Todd (NFI Massachusetts, Inc.); Eric Masi (Wayside Youth & Family Support Network); Keith Liederman (Kingsley House); Jeremy Kohomban (The Children's Village); Lisa Chin (Treehouse); and Ronald Brown (Childrens Bureau).
CWLA Press is thrilled to announce publication of the first of the five-volume "Child- and Family-Serving Systems: Compendium of Policy & Practice" (Ramona Denby-Brinson and Charlene Ingram, editors).
To purchase:
https://tinyurl.com/2vc6wz47
Volume 1,"Evolution of Protecting, Strengthening, and Sustaining Children and Families," offers “a useful roadmap for exploring future directions in child and family well-being policies and practices that promote personal dignity, family integrity, and social justice” (Mark F. Testa, Professor Emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill, introduction).
We're very grateful to our partners at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Ohio State University, and to our CWLA editorial and design team, for their diligent work on this project.
Volume 1 chapters include:
History of Well-Being and Child Welfare
Clare Anderson, Miranda Lynch-Smith, Krista Thomas, and Bryan Samuels
Child Welfare Legislation and Policy
Krista Thomas, Miranda Lynch, and Clare Anderson
Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act and its Application to Practice
Heather Tanana, Nancy Lucero, Alisa Lee, and Elisabeth Parker
Sustainable Financing to Support Children & Families
Deborah S. Harburger, Sheila A. Pires, and Melissa Schober
Economic Support as a Strategy for Child Maltreatment Prevention
Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Sarah Parmenter, Hanna Haran, Deborah J. Moon, and Rebecca J. Phillips
COVID-19 and the Macro Economy: Implications for Child Welfare
Vicky N. Albert and Rebecca L. Bosetti
Family and Youth Engagement in Child Welfare Policy and Programs: Empowering Practice Models
Astraea Augsberger and Mary Elizabeth Collins
Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare Programs and Services
Susan Yoon, Joyce Y. Lee, Alexa Ploss, Juan Lorenzo Benavides, and Jaclyn Kirsch
Trauma-informed Care: An Intergenerational Approach
Xiafei Wang, Benjamin John Phelps, Keith A. Alford, and Mo Yee Lee
From One in Ten podcast:
How do we address racial inequities within the child welfare system? How do we add youth voices and those with lived experience in a meaningful way into program planning? And how do we learn from the data what works and eliminate practices that clearly don’t?
CWLA president and CEO Christine James-Brown talks about how we might reform and reimagine the system.
Make sure to register for CWLA’s virtual conference, Moving Research to Practice (November 1-3, 2022)!
The conference will examine the practice implications of research collected in recent issues of Child Welfare journal and other upcoming CWLA publications. These volumes focus on poverty, equity, neglect, sexual abuse, prenatal alcohol and other drug exposure, serving the Latino population, workforce issues, and social determinants of health. CWLA will be joined by the editors and authors of those publications to share their findings and suggest strategies for incorporating this research into service delivery.
More here:
https://www.cwla.org/cwla2022-virtual/
