Sentences with phrase «of racial disproportionality»

This issue brief explores the prevalence of racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system.

Explores the prevalence of racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system.

Race Equity Review: Findings from a Qualitative Analysis of Racial Disproportionality and Disparity for African American Children and Families in Michigan's Child Welfare System (PDF - 1,095 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2009) Presents research and findings of institutional features that contribute to racial disproportionality and disparity, and recommendations for change.

This qualitative study represents the field's first attempt to gather systematically the perceptions of child welfare personnel about the issue of racial disproportionality.

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The Department of Education's guidance notes that significant disproportionality could result from «appropriate identification, with higher prevalence of a disability, among a particular racial or ethnic group.»

addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

No matter a teaching staff's racial, ethnic, gender, or socioeconomic status, culturally responsive teacher training is crucial for schools addressing disproportionality, says David Kirkland, executive director of the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, A + Colorado, and 111 other organizations signed a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment.

«For instance, Iowa is number one, out of all states, in racial disproportionality between its population of African Americans and the percentage of African Americans in its prisons.»

However, this strategy was described by a number of administrators as part of their effort to enhance service delivery to children of color, and perhaps reduce racial disproportionality.

The majority of the sites identified the recruitment of minority foster and adoptive parents as an important strategy to reduce racial disproportionality.

When asked what services would benefit children of color in the child welfare system and address racial disproportionality, respondents offered many suggestions.

The final set of questions for respondents relative to racial disproportionality focused on federal laws and their impact on children of color (e.g. Multi-Ethnic Placement Act, Adoption and Safe Families Act).

In summary, they attributed racial disproportionality to external factors such as poverty and racial discrimination, to community and family characteristics such as the lack of informal and formal supports, and to internal issues such as worker bias.

The project was intended to gain insight into the issue of over-representation (or racial disproportionality) from the perspective of the child welfare community, including agency administrators, supervisors, and direct service workers, and to describe the strategies child welfare and child - welfare serving agencies use to meet the needs of children and families of color in the child welfare system.

What is the impact of systematic reforms and their resulting practices on racial disproportionality in the child welfare system?

For example, evaluation of subsidized guardianship and licensed (i.e. paid) kinship care in Illinois has suggested that such efforts can reduce racial disproportionality (Testa, 2001).

For example, in North Carolina, changes in the child welfare system resulting from the implementation of the Families for Kids program did result in a reduction in racial disproportionality (Wildfire, 2000).

The evidence from this study linking racial disproportionality to external factors is consonant with much of the literature in this area.

Worker bias was repeatedly identified in the discussions with child welfare workers in this study as one of the reasons for racial disproportionality.

Some empirical studies using administrative data have examined these issues as well, and offer similar notions of the reasons for racial disproportionality, and strategies to reduce it.

Race Matters Toolkit Annie E. Casey Foundation Designed to help advocates mobilize resources for vulnerable populations of color in order to reduce racial disparities / disproportionality and promote racial equity.

Examining African American Fathers» Involvement in Permanency Planning: An Effort to Reduce Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 193 KB) Coakley (2008) Children and Youth Services Review, 30 View Abstract Examines the extent to which African - American fathers» involvement in permanency planning influences children's placement outcomes using a secondary data analysis of child welfare case records.

The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions Bartholet Harvard Law School Faculty Scholarship Series, 26, 2009 Explores whether Black children are disproportionately victimized by maltreatment and in need of child protective services, and if they are removed at rates proportionate to their maltreatment rates.

Cultural competence Cultural competence in all aspects of child welfare, including working with children and families, racial disproportionality, services, and training.

Alliance for Race Equity Center for the Study of Social Policy Provides tools and technical assistance to help agencies develop and implement effective strategies to address and reduce racial and ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system.

National Research and Assessment of Disproportionality: Racial Equity Strategies, Tools, and Programs (PDF - 274 KB) Black Administrators in Child Welfare & Casey Family Programs (2008) Discusses strategies, tools, and programs used in nine States to prevent and reduce the number of minority children in out - of - home care.

Guidance for Child Welfare Administrators on Achieving Racial Equity Policy for Results, Center for the Study of Social Policy Provides guidance for child welfare administrators for finding the causes of disproportionality and developing policies on how to measure and improve preventive services, entries into care, placement type, length of stay, and permanency for children and families of color.

Reducing Racial Disproportionality and Disparate Outcomes for Children and Families of Color in the Child Welfare System: A Breakthrough Series Collaborative (PDF - 702 KB) Casey Family Programs (2009) Discusses the challenges associated with addressing racial disproportionality and disparate outcomes, develops a framework for change, and presents strategies for reducing racial disproportionRacial Disproportionality and Disparate Outcomes for Children and Families of Color in the Child Welfare System: A Breakthrough Series Collaborative (PDF - 702 KB) Casey Family Programs (2009) Discusses the challenges associated with addressing racial disproportionality and disparate outcomes, develops a framework for change, and presents strategies for reducing racial dDisproportionality and Disparate Outcomes for Children and Families of Color in the Child Welfare System: A Breakthrough Series Collaborative (PDF - 702 KB) Casey Family Programs (2009) Discusses the challenges associated with addressing racial disproportionality and disparate outcomes, develops a framework for change, and presents strategies for reducing racial disproportionracial disproportionality and disparate outcomes, develops a framework for change, and presents strategies for reducing racial ddisproportionality and disparate outcomes, develops a framework for change, and presents strategies for reducing racial disproportionracial disproportionalitydisproportionality.

Courts Catalyzing Change (CCC) Initiative National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Provides information and research related to re-evaluating Federal, State, and local policy and makes recommendations for changes and improvements in the dependency court system to reduce racial disproportionality and disparate treatment.