Young People Lead is a podcast series featuring youth and young adults in Children’s Defense Fund programs whose lived experiences fuel their leadership. Season 2, “Bridging LA,” features the inaugural cohort of the Radical Imagination Fellowship. Across six conversations, fellows and community leaders reflect on foster care, youth homelessness, and healing and imagination as tools for systems change. This series invites listeners into a vision of leadership rooted in truth, resilience, and collective care.
Young People Lead - Standing on Policy
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Young People Lead is a podcast series featuring youth and young adults in Children’s Defense Fund programs whose lived experiences fuel their leadership. Season 2, “Bridging LA,” features the inaugural cohort of the Radical Imagination Fellowship. Across six conversations, fellows and community leaders reflect on foster care, youth homelessness, and healing and imagination as tools for systems change. This series invites listeners into a vision of leadership rooted in truth, resilience, and collective care.
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March 10, 2026
Transforming Child Well-being in California
<p>Join a panel of advocates, policymakers, and leaders as they examine child well-being policy in California. The discussion highlights how laws like the California Fostering Connections to Success Act have supported youth aging out of foster care, while revealing persistent gaps in housing, education, and mental health services. Panelists share personal experiences, innovative programs, and policy initiatives that center youth voice, prioritize relationships over compliance, and aim to ensure stable housing, education pathways, and healing for transition-age youth. This session emphasizes actionable strategies for strengthening communities, dismantling barriers, and creating systems that empower young people to thrive.</p>
March 3, 2026
Advocating With Urgency, Building With Love
<p>Join Dr. Charity Chandler-Cole as she shares her journey from a system-involved youth to transformative leader, mother, and advocate. Drawing from lived experience, she explores how urgency and love must work together to create lasting change in child welfare and justice systems. In this keynote, Dr. Chandler-Cole challenges us to question policies that harm, act swiftly to remove barriers for children, and design systems that center dignity, hope, and joy. This is a call to action for policymakers, community members, and advocates to align daily actions with deep convictions and ensure every child grows up seen, supported, and valued.</p>
February 24, 2026
Young People Lead - Beyond the Record
<p>In this episode, fellows confront how stereotypes and low expectations push foster youth toward the juvenile justice system, where a single mistake can carry lifelong consequences. Through lived experience and a conversation with Melissa Milchman of Coalition for Juvenile Justice, the episode examines how system involvement disrupts education, housing, and opportunity, and how community-based solutions can interrupt these cycles. This conversation affirms that accountability and healing are possible without punishment defining a young person’s future.</p>
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