Beth Bradford has over thirty years of experience working across a range of contexts, including in the U.S. child welfare system. She served as the Technical Director for Changing the Way We Care, a global initiative to promote family-based care for children, leading program implementation and learning across six countries, three regions, and in partnership with global actors. Beth has worked with government and non-government actors alike, with a focus on developing strong child protection and care systems.
Her work centers on strengthening sustainable child protection and care systems and scaling models and approaches around family strengthening and parenting, social service workforce strengthening, social work practice, holistic early childhood development, community services, and family-based alternative care. Beth has experience in qualitative research, evaluation, policy development, program design and management, design of standards and guidance, curriculum development, and training. She spent twelve years as Family Support Director for a U.S.-based community organization and brings learning from this experience, as well as her own parenting and foster parenting, to her work. Beth has published academic articles, webinars and presentations, publications, and resource documents in the care and protection sector. She contributes regularly to advancing knowledge and practice through global working groups and committees. She holds a Master’s degree in International Development and is based in the United States.