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Reducing Disproportionality
Strategies for reducing disproportionality, including State and local examples.
A Model for Examining Disproportionality (PDF - 86 KB)
Race Matters Consortium (2007)
This model, developed to provide a context for closer examination of the related factors impacting children as they enter and travel through the child welfare system, hypothesizes two pathways into the child welfare system.
Practices that Mitigate the Effects of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 227 KB)
Casey Family Programs (2003)
Focuses on practices that might mitigate the effects of disproportionality on the children and families who are already involved with the out-of-home care system by leading to improved outcomes in permanency and well-being.
Profile of Child Welfare System Involvement of African Americans in an Illinois County (PDF - 831 KB)
Derezotes & Hartnett (2005)
Provides the first step administrators should take when addressing racial disproportionality in the child welfare system.
Race Matters in Child Welfare (PDF - 2596 KB)
Derezotes (2006)
In Permanency Planning Today
Describes strategies to prevent, intervene and eliminate adverse disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Child Welfare System: Recommendations for Federal Policy (PDF - 20 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (2005)
Recommendations for changes in Federal policy to reduce racial disproportionality in the child welfare system.
The Role of the Caseworker in Identifying, Developing and Supporting Strengths in African American Families Involved in Child Protective Services: A Practice Guide (PDF - 66 KB)
Rockymore (2006)
Tool to help social workers address overrepresentation and racial disparity of African-American children and their families involved in child protective services.
Seven Steps to Develop and Evaluate Strategies to Reduce Disproportionate Minority Contact (PDF - 239 KB)
Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center, Justice Research and Statistics Association (2005)
Developed to enhance States' capacity to evaluate their initiatives related to disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system, as well as to incorporate evaluation into program development and planning.
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State and local examples
Family Group Decision Making and Disproportionality in Foster Care: A Case Study
Crampton & Jackson
Child Welfare, 86(3), 2007
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Describes one community's efforts to use Family Group Decision Making in placement decisions to reduce disproportionality in foster care by diverting children from regular foster care services and keeping them within their extended families.
NASW Practice Snapshot: Promising Practices in Child Welfare
National Association of Social Workers (2005)
Highlights the University of Iowa 's National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice's work to reverse the overrepresentation of children of color in the child welfare system.
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