Virginia advocates have attempted for nearly two decades to create an Office of the Children’s Ombudsman. This year, it narrowly made it out of the House and now needs your…
Virginia advocates have attempted for nearly two decades to create an Office of the Children’s Ombudsman. This year, it narrowly made it out of the House and now needs your…
Update 4/24/2020 Voices for Virginia’s Children continues to search for its next CEO. Our Board of Directors is working in partnership with search firm, Warren Whitney. They have received resumes…
As the early childhood education reform bills (SB578/HB1012) continue to move towards passage at the General Assembly, we wanted to share more detail of the proposed transition timeline for early…
Voices for Virginia’s Children once again teamed up with our partners, Mental Health America-Virginia, VOCAL, NAMI-Virginia and SAARA, to jointly host our annual mental health advocacy day. This is the 7thyear…
Over my last eight years at Voices, I’ve said that Virginia needs some big ideas and big changes to our early childhood system many, many times. This year we got…
“I know from personal experience that trauma can be life-changing, but I didn’t know that talking about trauma could change my life. And the lives of others,” said Theresa Caldwell,…
This year, legislators filed a record number of bills–3506 to be exact! All of these bills must be considered by the February 11 “crossover” deadline. That means days and nights…
Virginia is ranked 49th in the country for the number of children aging out of foster care without a permanent connection. Children at-risk of entering foster care are more likely…