Roundtable Overview and Materials

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. For meeting information or if you are having problems accessing any of the below materials, please contact Sara Fung at [email protected].

December 2024: California’s Shift from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting

California Mandatory Reporting Data Overview
Daniel Webster, Principal Investigator, [email protected]
California Child Welfare Indicators Project, ccwip.berkeley.edu

What Parents Say about Mandated Reporting
Roger De Leon, [email protected]

Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force Report and Recommendations
David Swanson Hollinger, Consultant, [email protected]
Integrated Human Services Group, integratedhumanservicesgroup.com

Luciana Svidler, Director of Policy and Training, [email protected]
Children’s Law Center of California, clccal.org

Shifting from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting: A Community-Based Organization’s Perspective
Jenny Pearlman, Chief Policy Officer, [email protected]
Safe & Sound, safeandsound.org

Shifting to Community Supporting: A National and Statewide Effort
Vanessa Spagnoli, Director of State Public Policy, [email protected]
Casey Family Programs, casey.org

Past Meeting Materials

Domestic Violence and Child Welfare – The Intersection
Eve Sheedy, Consultant, [email protected]
Taylor Dudley, Executive Director, [email protected]
The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, pritzkercenter.ucla.edu

Survivor Perspective
Jacqueline Herrera, Hope-Line Parent Partner, [email protected]
Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, ladlinc.org

 New Strategies to Address the Intersection
Brenda Tully, Research Director, [email protected]
The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, pritzkercenter.ucla.edu

 Legal Advocacy for Survivors
Fabiola Gonzalez, Parent Support Case Manager, [email protected]
Family Support and Advocacy Center, fsacla.org

Policy Change in DV/Child Welfare, Part I
Chris Negri, Associate Director of Public Policy Strategies, [email protected]
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, cpedv.org

 Policy Change in DV/Child Welfare, Part II
Arati Vasan, Senior Managing Attorney, [email protected]
Family Violence Appellate Project, fvaplaw.org

2024 Meeting Materials

2023 Meeting Materials

2022 Meeting Materials

2021 Meeting Materials

2020 Meeting Materials

2019 Meeting Materials

About Children Now

Children Now is a nonpartisan, multi-issue research, policy development and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting children’s health and education in California. The organization also leads The Children’s Movement of California, a network of more than 3,000 direct service, parent, civil rights, faith-based and community groups dedicated to improving children’s well-being. Learn more about us at www.childrennow.org.