Tech Vision 2023 in Health & Public ServiceEvery year we do some hard thinking about our vision for the use of technology in the future. We see a new way of being in relationship…Dec 15, 2023Dec 15, 2023
Trans Rights and Human RightsThe rights of people who identify as transgendered is a hot topic these days. I started to notice it when my kid was in 5th grade when she…May 6, 2023May 6, 2023
A Child Welfare Story: What would it take to write a different ending?The other day I met up with a woman I have known for more than 30 years. I do not have a word for our relationship. Friend? No, although I…Jan 23, 20231Jan 23, 20231
Healing Trauma: Creating a virtual experience grounded in complex realityAlayna is a 15-year-old girl in deep conflict with her mother, Dee. When the conflict escalates, Dee throws Alayna out of the house and…Jul 28, 2022Jul 28, 2022
Reimagining Tech for Child WelfareI spent a 25-year career in public service in child welfare — a field that has not been afforded technology staples we have in our daily…Jan 26, 2021Jan 26, 2021
SACWIS to CWIS: It’s time for tech that truly delivers for child welfareIt’s been more than 20 years since states got federal funding to build a State Automated Child Welfare Information System — or SACWIS, for…Nov 17, 2020Nov 17, 2020
Black and WhiteI am white. Over the course of my 30 year career I have spent most of my time in the company of black people. Some years I was the only…Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
Adoption is Forever?Child welfare systems are troubling places. I know because I spent a career inside them trying desperately to make them work. Among all…Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019
The radical act of putting families and children at the centerIn an earlier post, I proposed that it’s time to question everything we think we know in child welfare. One of the most important…Feb 18, 2019Feb 18, 2019
Deep WaterLabor Day weekend and it is unbearably hot in Baltimore. Being the last weekend the pool would be open, we drag ourselves out early so as…Oct 16, 2018Oct 16, 2018
