The Child Welfare System and Race

Addressing Disproportionality | Child Welfare Information Gateway

Families from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds may experience inequitable outcomes when they become involved with child welfare. For example, African ...

Behind the Racial Disparities in the US Child-Welfare System - Time

One in Ten Black Children in America Are Separated From Their Parents by the Child-Welfare System. A New Book Argues That's No Accident.

Racial Discrimination in Child Protective Services

In this post, we draw on a recent study to document disparities in the likelihood that children of different races will be placed into foster care.

Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and ...

Child welfare agencies are increasingly evaluating their systems to identify where and how racial and ethnic disproportionalities and disparities are occurring, ...

Racial Discrimination in Child Welfare Is a Human Rights Violation ...

Every day in the United States, Black children are investigated by the child welfare system and forcibly separated from their parents, at rates ...

Racial Justice - Children's Rights

Child welfare systems perpetuate the oppression of Black, Indigenous, and other children and families of color through traumatic surveillance, investigation, ...

Even “Child Welfare” Workers Say their Agency is Racist - NYCLU

Systemic racism is a key driver of the so-called child welfare system, better understood as the family regulation system. This is a system ...

Addressing Disproportionality, Disparity, and Equity Throughout ...

The Children's Bureau (CB) is committed to addressing disproportionality and disparity in child welfare for Black, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), ...

Examining Racial Disproportionality in Child Protective Services ...

We examine differences between black and white families with regard to caseworker ratings of risk and harm to the child, as well as the probability that a case ...

Racial Disparities - Casey Family Programs

What are jurisdictions learning and doing as they address racial disparities in child welfare? ... The Race Equity Improvement Collaborative (REIC) ...

Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System

Racial disproportionality in child welfare exists because of influences that are both external to child welfare systems and part of the child welfare system.

Caseworker Files - Race And Class In The Child Welfare System

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Report Disproportionality and Race Equity in Child Welfare

According to 2018 data, white children made up 50.5% of the population, yet they accounted for only 44.37% of children in foster care. Hispanic ...

Institutional racism in child welfare - ScienceDirect.com

It describes how systemic racism denies vital social and economic supports to kin caregivers who are responsible for their related children. This assessment ...

Racial Disproportionality - CFRC

Racial disproportionality in the child welfare system is a growing concern across the U.S. and in Illinois, where Black children are over-represented in the ...

Racial disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system

Children of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system, and Black children have been most significantly impacted by this racial ...

Is N.Y.'s Child Welfare System Racist? Some of Its Own Workers Say ...

In New York's child welfare system, where Black families are seven times as likely as white families to be accused of child maltreatment and 13 ...

Racism at Every Stage: Data Shows How NYC's Administration for ...

Racism at Every Stage: Data Shows How NYC's Administration for Children's Services Discriminates Against Black and Brown Families · Racial ...

Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor ...

Racial disparities exist at every stage of child welfare decision-making. Black families are more likely to be reported to the child abuse ...

Policy Actions to Reduce Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in ...

Children of color involved with the child welfare system experience significantly worse outcomes than non-minority children. They have a higher occurence of ...