{"id":32772,"date":"2017-07-03T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=32772"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:37:44","slug":"julie-sweeney-springwater","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/julie-sweeney-springwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Sweeney Springwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julie Sweeney Springwater is a lecturer and retired faculty member who was a past chair of Macro Practice at BUSSW. She is executive director of the New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors at Judge Baker Children\u2019s Center in Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working in public child welfare early in her career convinced Springwater that there were better ways to partner with families, youth and children who found themselves in the child welfare system. Throughout her career, she has continually sought ways to improve policy and practice\u2014engaging families and youth to achieve this and\u00a0leading and managing organizations that provide competent support for those who do this vital work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Springwater is the author of \u201cYouth Engagement in Policy Advocacy: Successes and Challenges of a Multi-state Current and Former Foster Care Youth Coalition,\u201d which will appear in an upcoming issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children and Youth Services Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma-Informed Resilient Child Welfare Agencies: A New England Learning Community \u2013 Summary of the Work<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors and Casey Family Programs, 2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Springwater serves on the board of the Child Welfare League of America, the Massachusetts Network of Foster Care Alumni and USA Gymnastics, where she chairs the Safe Sport Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11983,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81669,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32772\/revisions\/81669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}