Re-imagining Child Welfare & Domestic Violence Systems through a Race Equity Lens

On August 7, 2019, the Texas Working At the Intersections for Safe Families (Texas WAIS) cohort was launched in the serene Native Tamayame lands in New Mexico. Through the support of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Ujima (The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community), Futures without Violence, the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody, and Family & Youth Services Bureau, six Texas emergent leaders were brought together for training, strategic planning, sisterhood and the creation of a new initiative to improve Texas child welfare. With only three cohorts selected nation-wide (Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan), Texas WAIS aims to be a leader in re-imagining the child welfare system and domestic violence system responses to keeping families safe through a race equity lens.