We don’t have to settle for the system we’ve always had. We can transform our approach…
We can’t do this work alone… From Foster America’s earliest days, we’ve recognized that true change results only from truly collaborative efforts.
Today, we’re cultivating a national network of fellows, leaders, and changemakers who are leading the charge to transform child welfare. We bring together child welfare leaders, experts, advocates and practitioners to share the latest research, data, and insights so more communities can replicate proven models and learn from the challenges. Foster America was founded in 2016 as a fellowship program. We actively recruited, placed, and supported fellows to lead innovation projects, embedding them in state and county governments and nonprofit organizations across the nation. Our founding goal was to develop leadership capacity and attract diverse talent to tackle the sector’s most challenging problems.
That remains one of the key tenets of Foster America’s work today – but with a bigger, more audacious goal than ever before. Building on what we learned during our early years as a fellowship model, we’ve expanded our efforts to reach more changemakers with the drive – and the imagination – to transform how our nation serves families and children.
We recognize that it is not just individual talent, but the
community we build by bringing innovators together, that makes all the difference. Meeting this need are our new changemaker circles – 15-month professional development fellowships that bring together changemakers who share common personal or professional experiences.
So children have what they need. So families flourish. So communities thrive.
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