“More than any other player, the Youth Law Center has changed the way we think about our function. They focused on trying to look at children’s services system through the eyes of children themselves… and reframing the value set.”
Will Lightbourne
Former Director of California Department of Social Services
“QPI really helps us enhance the partnership that happens between parents, caregivers, and our social workers because it really takes that whole team working together to make sure that child stays stable and they have what they need.”
Kimberly Giardina
Director of Child County and Family Well-Being of San Diego
“As a juvenile court judge, I am already seeing the difference QPI makes as foster parents come into my courtroom. When they are treated as partners with staff, it enhances the quality of care for our foster children. More than any other player, the Youth Law Center has changed the way we think about our function. They focused on trying to look at children’s services system through the eyes of children themselves… and reframing the value set.”
Judge Blair Edwards
21st Judicial District of Louisiana
“I have learned that QPI is a movement and a much-needed positive perspective on how we can strengthen relationships to provide consistency for children and youth that are involved with the child welfare system. I look forward to championing excellent parenting and being a part of this culture shift.”
Tina P.
Social Work Supervisor
California
“The kids were just overjoyed that they had this network of aunties that knew their language, knew their culture, were a part of their culture and that me and my husband were connected. It was huge for the kids. That’s one of our biggest hopes that we can achieve, to get more homes that are culturally specific to the children that are in placement.”
Darlene B.
Foster/Resource Parent
Minnesota
“Invest in adolescence. Convenings such as these [QPI National Conference], organizations like the Youth Law Center that draw attention to the importance of adolescence and setting up adolescence for success by putting in place policies and programs that do just do that are really important.”
Dr. Adriana Galván
Professor of Psychology UCLA
“If you accept kids the way they arrive in your home, you have to be equally willing to accept and understand their parents and what they’ve been through. But you also have to be willing to believe that those parents will respond to authentic support. If they trust you, that’s half the battle.”
Zack S.
Adoptive Parent
Nevada
“Justice for children and youth is in the moment-to-moment unconditional love they receive. System transformation occurs when we prioritize the roots they need to grow and the wings they need to fly.”
Jennifer Rodriguez
Youth Law Center Executive Director & QPI Co-founder
“While we have ended the worst abuses, we have forgotten that children in these systems need love just as much as our own children. Together, we can ensure instead of a series of traumas, children have actual childhoods.”
Carole Shauffer
QPI Senior Director & Co-founder