Interview with Wayfinder Family Services on Its Innovative Kinnections Kinship Navigation Program Model
Wayfinder Family Services is the recipient of Social Current’s 2026 Innovative Impact Award for its…
Training and Consulting
Family and Community Systems
When children and families thrive, it benefits all of us. That’s why we have a shared responsibility across communities to nurture their health and well-being. Together, we can reduce child abuse and neglect by fostering protective factors and building trust between systems and communities.
Social Current supports human and social services organizations, partners, and systems in translating shared goals into aligned action. We promote collaboration, reduce service fragmentation, and center lived experience to achieve stronger outcomes.
Our Services
We work alongside organizations and partners to provide facilitated planning, training, and ongoing support. Our approach emphasizes shared understanding, practical tools, and implementation that reflects how systems operate in real life.
Creative Learning & Transformational Training
Deliver dynamic, interactive and experience-based learning that challenges assumptions, builds on cultural understanding, strengthens leadership capacity, and translates insight into action.
Prevention & Family Well-Being Strategy
Design and strengthen upstream approaches that reduce system involvement, align with community and center protective factors for children and families.
Cross-System Coordination & Systems Alignment
Facilitate collaboration across child welfare, juvenile justice, behavioral health, education, and community partners to reduce fragmentation and improve outcomes.
Strategic Visioning, Planning & Sustainability
Support agencies and jurisdictions with long-term planning, gap analysis, and implementation strategies that are actionable and data informed.
Culturally Responsive & Equity-Centered Practice
Partner with leaders to address inequities in policy and practice, integrate upstream supportive strategies, and design culturally grounded systems that better serve families and communities.
About Our Training and Consulting
Our Initiatives
Within Our Reach
Promotes implementation of policy and practice recommendations from the federal Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities through a policy education toolkit and media messaging that shifts the narrative toward greater support of families.Additional Initiatives
Mandated Reporting Reform involves developing a new mandated reporter curriculum and training that addresses implicit bias, disproportionality, and aligns with nationally recognized best practices.
Supporting Children, Youth, and Families Affected by the Drug Crisis: Recruiting and Developing Peer Recovery Coaches supports children, youth, and families who have suffered victimization as a result of a family member or caregiver’s substance use disorder by recruiting, training, and certifying peer recovery coaches who have lived experience.
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