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Addressing Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare
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Series: Issue Briefs |
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Child Welfare Information Gateway
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| Year Published: 2011 |
Issue briefs include a review of research and policies to bring together current information with examples of promising practices.
The child welfare community has moved from acknowledging the problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system to formulating and implementing possible solutions. As jurisdictions and agencies evaluate their systems to identify where and how disproportionality is occurring, they are seeking changes that show promise for their own populations.
This issue brief explores efforts to address racial disproportionality in child welfare by focusing on changes in policy and practice at specific decision points in the child welfare process—prevention, reporting, investigation, service provision, out-of-home care, and permanency—as well as policies and practices that can be implemented across several or all of these decision points. The issue brief is designed to help administrators, program managers, and policymakers explore solutions to racial disproportionality in their own child welfare systems. Specific examples of State and local projects that address disproportionality are highlighted throughout.
A brief introductory section on prevalence is also included, to provide some background statistics.1
Table of Contents
- Prevalence
- Community Development and Prevention
- Reporting and Screening
- Investigation and Assessment
- Service Provision
- Permanency for Children in Out-of-Home Care
- Across the Stages of Child Welfare
- States' Efforts
- Strategies and Research
- References
Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2011). Addressing racial disproportionality in child welfare.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.
1While it is necessary to understand what causes disproportionality in a particular jurisdiction in order to formulate solutions, it is beyond the scope of this issue brief to explore the background issues and causes in depth. A number of studies already exist, including, for example, Derezotes, Poertner, & Testa (Eds.), 2005; Hill, 2005, 2006; McRoy, 2005; Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity, 2006; U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2007. Back
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