The Future of Child Welfare Reform: Advocating for Child Welfare Reform

How can the child welfare system be reformed? Join Senior Research Associate Amanda N. Barczyk, Ph.D., M.S.W., as she talks with experts who share their perspectives. Guests will discuss significant problems facing the child welfare system; recommendations for improving, restructuring, or completely reimagining it; and thoughts on the role research and evaluation could play in advancing reform. Episodes will be released through spring 2024. In this third episode, Dr. Barczyk talks with Michelle D. Chan, a writer, activist, mother, and founder and director of California Families Rise. In addition to sharing her personal experience with the child welfare system as a parent, Ms. Chan discusses problems in the system; how advocates like her use data and research to drive their efforts; how data and research could be more accessible to community members, including those who interact with the system; and how researchers and evaluators could support advocacy efforts.