Lived Experience Voices: DeAnna Cobun

Lived experience voice is essential to the work of supporting Wisconsin’s children, youth and families. Wisconsin is transforming the child welfare system to keep families and children together by supporting them in-home with services and resources, and this transformation is only possible with the partnership of lived experience leaders.

This National Reunification Month, we spoke with DeAnna Cobun—a Parent Partner with the Parents Supporting Parents program in Rock County—about her experience in the child welfare system, how she inspires positive change as a Parent Partner and why lived experience voice is so critical to this work.

To read DeAnna’s full story, view or download the PDF version of the article. To learn more about lived experience and lived experience opportunities in Wisconsin, visit the Department of Children and Families’ Lived Experience webpage.