Collective of Child Welfare Survivors Growth and Expansion

CCWS’ core principles are addressing anti-Black racism, decolonization, and critical youth-centered practice. Through this, we aim to rethink practices within child welfare/family policing systems in how we provide services for child welfare survivors and their families. CCWS aims to provide spaces and advocacy for child welfare survivors to develop and understand themselves in ways that break from the shame, pathologization, and carcerality forced onto them. This takes place through all of our areas of service, referring to our individual advocacy, community development (workshops, public resources, and webinars), and systemic organizing (for example, the coalition addressing. As well, by providing these services to child welfare survivors they develop a sense of community and opportunities for a radical understanding of their experiences where they can develop their own individual advocacy skills.