Episode # 29: Rebecca Robuck
Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy.
Child welfare policy often swings between two possible answers to the system’s purpose: protecting children or supporting families.
Even efforts to move beyond that debate can end up recreating it as an argument over whether to reform the system or replace it altogether.
Today’s guest is someone who refuses to collapse that complexity.
Rebecca Robuck is a Partner at ChildFocus Partners, and the Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child and Family Well-Being.
As a leading national policy expert, she leads coalition advocacy and advises national organizations on what’s happening and what’s possible in child welfare policy.
We talk about why innovation happening on the ground doesn’t always reach national conversations, the role of coalitions in reshaping federal policy, and what’s next in child and family policy.
At its core, our conversation is about what we lose when policy debates don’t surface foundational questions like what a system like child welfare is actually for.
For anyone feeling overwhelmed by current policy volatility, this captures why an era of disruption and uncertainty also offers opportunities for re-imagining what’s possible.
