Fostering Media Connections

Fostering media connections harnesses the power of journalism to advocate child welfare and juvenile justice reform by covering emerging solutions to the systems challenges. We accomplish this mission through strict adherence to solution-based journalism. First, we report and produce our own coverage, which is published in The Chronicle of Social Change. We then market those stories to mainstream and niche media outlets in an effort to change overarching foster care and child welfare narrative towards soluntions, not simply problems. We also train students journalist, policymakers and social workers in solution-base journalism, and share our expertise with professional repoters. Finally,. we are conecting the national youth services field through the chronicle to increase its collective impact.

Programs and Services Offered:

The chronicle of social change: daily online news publications devoted to covering child welfare and juvenile justice issues. Journalism for social change: a course offered online and in universities to students of social work, public polic, criminal justice, etc. teaching the tenets of solution based journalism and how to use journalism and how to use journalism to advocate for social change. Youth voice initiative: workshops teaching cureent and former foster youth how to use journalism to change the world childfare system. fostering families today and adoptation today magazines: print and digital magazines serving the foster and adoptive parent communities.