Archive - Child Welfare Wonk

WonkCast #46: Making Babies Count

Michelle Bezark on Sheppard-Towner & the Modern Administrative State

Oct 14

26:42

Weekly Wonk: The Procurement Paradox

The CCWIS Conundrum at Work

Oct 12

WonkCast #45: Patrick Brown on the Future of Family Policy

Is the CTC anti-poverty, or pro-family formation?

Oct 7

30:13

Weekly Wonk: Safety Science & Child Welfare Leadership

The JD You’d Never Post

Oct 5

September 2026

Episode #44: Ryan O’Donnell, Co-Founder & CEO, Sunlight

How child welfare ended up with technology over-engineered for compliance, and under-engineered for actual usability

Sep 30

31:06

Weekly Wonk: The Key Questions for Safety

Better decisions at scale, plus new Chafee funding analysis

Sep 28

WonkCast #43: Is Kinship Care Prevention, or an Intervention?

Ali Caliendo on what’s missing from our policy debates

Sep 23

34:08

Weekly Wonk: How Risk Aversion Raises Risk

How we design a system not to know about safety risks.

Sep 21

WonkCast #42: Sierra Burns on Why Policy Change is Just the Start

Seeing past the permission of policy to the impact of making it real

Sep 16 • Zach Laris

31:21

Weekly Wonk: Safety & The Child Welfare Workforce

What’s missing from our debates, and what it costs us

Sep 14

WonkCast #41: The Risk of Exercising Judgment

Mike Leach on caution, outcomes, and leadership

Sep 9 • Zach Laris

27:43

Weekly Wonk: Chafee’s State-by-State Service Divide

Plus Wonk’s new public agency offering

Sep 8

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