Child Welfare
Children and youth in foster care aspire to grow up safely and in homes filled with support and stability. We work to reform California’s child welfare system so all kids in care have reliable and loving families and access to quality education and health care. And we do so through collaboration with young people currently or formerly in foster care, to change policy and get them what they need to flourish both while in care and long after.
Our Areas of Work
Initiative Spotlight
Child Welfare Policy Roundtable
The Child Welfare Policy Roundtable highlights the major child welfare and foster care issues facing California, visions for systemic reform, and policy opportunities to improve the lives of our state’s most vulnerable children and youth. This monthly meeting features a panel of policymakers, practitioners, advocates and former foster youth and provides an informal opportunity to learn and ask questions about California’s child welfare system. Legislative staff, advocates, stakeholders, and the public are invited to join the conversation.
Prevention Services Inventory
To assist county child welfare agencies, state agencies, and other stakeholders in California with implementing the federal Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), Children Now created a prevention services inventory (Inventory) in Airtable that includes evidence-based programs and services with relevance to FFPSA.
Meet the child welfare experts
Children Now’s staff is highly respected across the state for their research, policy, communications, and network building expertise on child-serving systems, financing, programs, and practices. With decades of experience in their specific areas, our experts work closely with policymakers and influential leaders throughout the state to craft, promote, enact and implement scalable change for kids.
