Washington state youth in extended foster care will no longer have to reimburse the state using their own disability or survivor benefits under...
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Partners for Our Children links research, practice, and policy. We conduct collaborative, equity driven research — co-created with, and guided by, those with lived expertise in the child welfare system.
This report, prepared for the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with funding from the Raikes Foundation, summarizes the findings from a formative evaluation of the implementation of the Pilot Community-Based Family Reconciliation Services (CB-FRS) program at Cocoon House in Everett, Washington. The evaluation represents a collaboration between Partners for Our Children, DCYF, and staff at Cocoon House. The pilot CB-FRS program at Cocoon House offers a model for future efforts to move more supports and services into the community. Recommendations emerging from this evaluation are designed to strengthen the program and inform potential expansion of CB-FRS programs across the state.
Washington state youth in extended foster care will no longer have to reimburse the state using their own disability or survivor benefits under...
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Kim Justice, P4C's Director of Public Policy, was the 2025 Honoree at The Mockingbird Society's Fall Fundraiser held at the Northwest African American...
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Sharing this wonderful UW School of Social Work article about P4C's senior policy advisor Laurie Lippold and her incredible career in public policy....
Read Full HighlightAt Partners for Our Children, we commit to working to dismantle institutional and structural racism as individuals and as an organization. As a Center within the School of Social Work, we support the School’s social justice mission and join the social work discipline’s grand challenge of eliminating racism. As an organization, our first work is to look inward and critically examine our roles in those institutional structures that perpetuate anti-Blackness and that reinforce racism, oppression, and inequities.