Child Welfare News Site Puts Writers on Path to Profit and Readership through "Blogger Co-Op"

LOS ANGELES - Aug. 23, 2016 - PRLog -- The Chronicle of Social Change, an online news site covering youth services and policy, has released a new application for its Blogger Co-Op and is seeking qualified applicants.

The one-of-a-kind Blogger Co-op, formed in 2013, enables budding journalists, advocates, youth services practitioners and non-profit leaders to submit opinion and analysis columns about child welfare, juvenile justice, youth services and children's rights writ large for publication in The Chronicle of Social Change.

The Co-op provides bloggers with a platform through which they can communicate directly with readers, spark meaningful debate, and be recognized and rewarded for their time and expertise.

"It's given me a chance to write about child welfare from my multiple perspectives," said Sade A. Daniels, a former foster youth who is now a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley and works with transition-aged foster youth at Bay Area Youth Center.

"I can speak about it as a provider, as a student who's studying child welfare, and also as someone who's had experience receiving services through a county," Daniels said. "I think my perspective is kind of unique and I'm hoping that people will listen to it."

The Chronicle of Social Change launched a new application process wherein Blogger Co-op applicants are asked to explain their motivation for joining, and to describe their expertise and the issues they most want to tackle.

"We created the Blogger Co-op in an effort to elevate a wider swath of voices across the youth services community," said Christie Renick, The Chronicle's managing editor. "Our members include former foster youth, therapists, agency heads, policy experts and foster parents. It's our way of ensuring greater diversity in journalism."

Blogger Co-Op members pay an annual membership fee of $60 and can publish up to four entries per month. Based on their share of overall Blogger Co-Op traffic, members are paid out of a pooled fund derived from membership fees. This is a way to incentivize members to write pieces that garner large audiences and also use their personal social media networks to share their work. Think the Huffington Post with payouts based on the traffic you generate.

More about how the Blogger Co-op works and the application are available at the following link: https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/our-blogger-co-op

A national online publication, The Chronicle of Social Change (https://chronicleofsocialchange.org) is dedicated to highlighting solutions to the myriad issues facing vulnerable children, youth and their families. Its stories are distributed to mainstream and alternative media outlets to drive attention, public will and policy change toward improving the systems that serve children and their families.