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Conversations with Child Welfare Wonk Founder & President Zach Laris, spotlighting the people, ideas, and tensions shaping child and family policy. www.childwelfarewonk.com
Unknown Host hosts WonkCast: People Power Policy, a news show with 32 episodes published.
Episode # 31: Michelle Feit Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. There is often a significant gap between the way issues poll with the general public and how they move through policy-making ins
Episode # 30: Erinn Kelley-Siel Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Our laws and funding task the same agency with removing children from families when there’s a safety risk, and helping those
Episode # 29: Rebecca Robuck Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Child welfare policy often swings between two possible answers to the system’s purpose: protecting children or supporting famil
Episode # 28: Kristi Putnam Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. It’s often the case that our policy patchwork asks families to fit programs, rather than fitting programs to families. That frag
Episode # 27: JooYeun Chang Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Child and family policy is full of “everybody knows” problems. Individually rational decisions can create policy outcomes nobody
Episode # 26: Elliot Haspel Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Child and family policy has a power problem. Why is it that issues that reach into the lives of all Americans are so often an af
Episode # 25: Dr. Alyssa Bish Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Child welfare agency leaders naturally have to think in constraints and tradeoffs. Since 2023, Dr. Alyssa Bish has served as D
Episode # 24: Dr. Jill Duerr Berrick Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. In child welfare, powerful narratives cite evidence to drive discussion of major issues. Evidence can add rigor and aut
Episode # 23: ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams has moved quickly in six months on the job. He’s rapidly advanced initia
Episode # 22: AMA With Wonk Founder Zach Laris Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. This week, we’re doing something different. We asked for your questions about what you’re grappling with righ
Episode # 21: AAP Advocacy SVP Jeff Hild Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. I’m Zach Laris, and this is WonkCast—where we spotlight the people, ideas, and tensions shaping child and family po
Episode # 20: Think of Us Founder & CEO Sixto Cancel Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. What’s the core tension between data and personal perspective in shaping child welfare policy? Pure abs
Episode # 19: Former Senate Finance Staffer & Family First Architect Laura Berntsen Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. It’s easy to fall into the trap of reading a law out of context; compari
Episode # 18: Children’s Bureau Associate Commissioner Ryan Hanlon Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. In DC, there’s the old adage that “personnel is policy”; who you appoint to policy roles
Episode # 17: Foster Insights Director Noah Duncan Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. I’m Zach Laris, and this is WonkCast—where we spotlight the people, ideas, and tensions shaping child and
Episode # 16: CarePortal Founder & President Adrien Lewis Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. This week we’re continuing our exploration of a key constraint on child welfare policy. Social iso
Episode # 15: Safe Families Founder & Executive Director Dr. David Anderson Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. State capacity and the way it impacts last-mile policy delivery is a key constra
Episode # 14: Wendell Primus on Child Welfare Financing & Congress Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Child welfare financing is structurally stuck. Decades-old design choices have left dolla
Episode # 13: Teresa Huizar on Child Safety Policy & Technology Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. Technology is now moving faster than our ability to protect children from harm. Nowhere is t
Episode # 12: Jedd Medefind on Complex Poverty Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy. We’ve been exploring policy debates about poverty, cash assistance, prevention, and child welfare involvement
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