Advocacy

Sometimes when we partner with group homes to improve their quality of care, we find gaps that cannot be filled at the center level. There are often gaps in the larger child protection system that can only be filled at a higher level, and in those cases we work hard to identify solutions and advocate for change within the system. Sometimes this means working to educate the people who place children in new care environments. Sometimes it means advocating to streamline the way children’s case files move through the system in order to minimize unnecessary delay or to avoid the retraumatization that can result when children are required to tell their story over and over again for the record. In each case, we work to advocate for the children in the system, so they might benefit from the best possible care.