Archive - Child Welfare Wonk

WonkCast #10: What's Missing in the Cash Assistance Debate

Listen now | A conversation with Brightpoint President & CEO Mike Shaver

Jan 14 • Zach Laris

32:19

Weekly Wonk: Introducing Wonk Intelligence Quarterly

An exciting new Wonk resource goes live

Jan 12

WonkCast #9: Testing TANF in Tennessee

A Conversation with TN Human Services Commissioner Clarence Carter

Jan 7 • Zach Laris

30:05

New Year, New Shutdown?

From the Founder’s Desk

Jan 5

December 2025

Weekly Wonk: The Quiet Constraints That Shaped Child Welfare Policy in 2025

The Real Rate Limits on Reform

Dec 22, 2025

WonkCast #8: Solving Child Welfare Policy’s Last Mile Problem

Listen now | A conversation with author and bureaucracy hacker Marina Nitze

Dec 17, 2025 • Zach Laris

35:15

Weekly Wonk: Mapping the Foster Care Decline

From the Founder’s Desk

Dec 15, 2025

WonkCast #7: Where Alex Adams is Leading ACF

A conversation with the ACF Assistant Secretary

Dec 10, 2025 • Zach Laris

37:59

Weekly Wonk: The Burden on Child Welfare’s Data Backbone

Special access to our premium brief on CCWIS

Dec 8, 2025

WonkCast #6: Reshaping Family Matches with Online Dating Data Science

A conversation with AdoptionShare Founder & CEO Thea Ramirez

Dec 3, 2025 • Zach Laris

33:26

Weekly Wonk: The Map is Not The Territory

Plus ACF's New "Home for Every Child" Initiative...

Dec 1, 2025

November 2025

WonkCast Episode 5: Former ACYF Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston

"Who am I to sit back?"

Nov 26, 2025 • Zach Laris

32:13

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