ideas.

The Child Welfare TRUTH-Telling Collective is rooted in critical reflection, lived experience, and a commitment to social justice. This page brings together the evolving ideas, insights, and questions that guide our work… and it’s where we invite you to wrestle with them alongside us.

Here, you’ll find podcasts and blog posts featuring members of our Collective as we speak openly about the systems we’ve worked in, the truths we've uncovered, and the possibilities we’re imagining. These conversations reflect our diverse perspectives as researchers, community workers, social workers, and people with lived and living experience navigating child welfare.

Our ideas are not fixed. They grow through dialogue, contradiction, and collaboration. We hope what you hear challenges you, affirms you, and pushes you to think more deeply about how the systems of power operate around us.