Quotes taken from the video series - Building, Community, Building Hope to begin the conversation about changes to the child welfare system. Quotes are taken from the film to reflect the collaboration within communities.

1. Digital Dialogue No. 1
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2. “Today, we know;
if we want to save
children, we have to save
their families.”
Deborah Daro
Chief Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at
The University of Chicago

3. “Fundamentally addressing child
abuse and neglect IS a health
issue.”
Melissa Brodowski
Office of Child Care

4. “What our project is trying to do,
we have our staff called service
coordinators, and they’re the
single point of contact for all the
services that the families need.”
Kelli Malone
Project Director, PUSH (Iowa)

5. “At least 50% of the kids that are in
foster care would never had to
enter foster care at all if we would
have been able to support their
families to be able to protect and
nurture them.”
Jim Seymour
Executive Director
Catholic Community Services (Oregon)

6. “We’re shifting data from
something that evaluates
performance to something that
informs learning, and that feels
very different to people . . .”
Sharlene Joachim
Improvement Coach,
Magnolia Community Initiative
(California)

7. “One of the things that we work
towards with all of our partners is not
only provide the service but also ask
an additional three questions around
social isolation, maternal depression
or family stressors, and child
development concerns.”
Lila Guirguis
Director, Magnolia Community Initiative
(California)

8. Alex Morales
CEO, Children’s Bureau of Southern
California
“We all need to own the welfare of
children and families in the
communities versus one organization
claiming itself as the owner and the
leader of this”

9. “What we’ve learned over time is
that there is no such thing as a
resistant family; there are only
resistant professionals.”
Kelli Malone
Project Director, PUSH (Iowa)

10. “The key is the focus on promoting
protective factors in the home and
in the neighborhood right where
people live.”
Jim Seymour
Executive Director
Catholic Community Services (Oregon)

11. “People are finding ways to build
effective programs that are really
engaging families in new and
different ways.”
Melissa Brodowski
Office of Child Care

12. “. . .the job of prevention is to
level the playing field, to make
it okay for every parent to
reach out and ask for help.”
Deborah Daro
Chief Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at
The University of Chicago

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