The first thing I thought when I was asked to co-author this blog was, “Why? Who wants to read it?”
I have been assured that I have something to offer, and as I think about it, I guess I do talk about what we’re doing every day – I just don’t put a label on it.
At DHS, we’re used to talking a lot about compliance. The people I work with are genuinely concerned about the welfare of kids and families, and we need guidelines – formal and informal, that provide the best results for kids and families.
Since the creation of CWPC, there’s more conversation about how those guidelines help or hinder the shared goals of public and private agencies. There’s more conversation about how an agency could best work within overall expectations and how many options we can look at to meet everyone’s needs. There’s just more conversation. Conversations with more people. We have more ideas, more evaluation, more questions asked. More information to make better decisions.
I’ll be talking about those conversations, and about the experiences I have that lead me through this journey.
-Wendy
