We are a team of former foster youth, case workers, foster-adopt parents, and child welfare career veterans from across the US, committed to changing the way child welfare shapes the lives of children and families. Many of us bring direct lived experience in or close proximity to foster care – as former foster youth, birth parents, foster parents, adoptive families, or kin caregivers. Individuals across our team also have personal lived experience in many of the life-altering outcomes we aim to disrupt.