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Loving connection to family is the foundation of lifelong health and wellbeing. We are convening the Alia UnSystem Innovation Cohort so that all children experience an uninterrupted sense of connection and belonging to their family.
….By avoiding out-of-family placement we change our measures of success to not only protect children’s physical
Our current system is designed to keep youth from physical harm, and separation often happens. We now know that children cannot thrive without also healing the grief and loss that come after separation from a caregiver, and that the wellbeing of caregivers has a direct impact on this healing process. After decades of changing lives child by child, Alia sets its sights on bringing those innovations to a larger scale: to revolutionize the child welfare system.
We must disrupt the old way and redesign a new just and loving way of working with families where healing from separation is not
Our goal is for every child to remain in the uninterrupted care of an already-trusted adult; where there is never a disruption to his or her sense of connection and belonging. We aim to re-design systems to utilize family-driven responses to struggling parents, preserving familial bonds in any way possible, to the extent safely possible.
An UnSystem is an idea that was born in May 2017 at the 10 of 10 for Kids national convening where we brought together 100+ innovators and thought leaders from inside and outside the field to reimagine child welfare. We hoped to identify one or two prototypes of a radically different child welfare system and a short list of guiding principles we could all agree to uphold as our north star.
The constructed system dismantles and adds more pressure on families in times of challenge rather than supporting the family back top balance & wellbeing.
We were brave and vulnerable. It was hopeful, optimistic, and messy too. We came out the other side together as a community of innovators committed to supporting parents and caregivers and improving the lives of children who cannot live safely at home.
Think of Us, a non-profit dedicated to leveraging technology to improve the lives of foster youth aging out of the system, captured the Ten of Ten experience.
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