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Racial Equity Resources to Support Your Daily Practice
As we celebrate Black History Month this February, let’s recognize the changes and efforts being made in the field to reimagine an antiracist system that supports families of color.
Take action and make an impact by enhancing your suite of racial equity resources with these publications, webpages, and podcasts. Share them with your colleagues, agencies, and the families that need them.
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Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
Get a brief overview of the problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system. Learn about the practices that child welfare caseworkers, administrators, program managers, and policymakers can implement to address these issues in general and at specific decision-making points along the child welfare continuum.
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Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Adoptive Families
This factsheet for families provides information to help families support their child in developing a healthy racial and cultural identity and live a vibrant, multicultural life. It discusses the importance of examining thoughts and biases and preparing a child to live in a society where race has a major impact on individual lives.
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- Find racial equity resources to support child welfare and related professionals in recognizing individual biases and dismantling systemic racism.
- Explore a collection of resources on disproportionality to learn more about issues such as overrepresentation in the child welfare system, underrepresentation in support services, inequitable investigations for suspected cases of maltreatment, and disparities in decision-making.
- Learn to be culturally responsive and gain the ability to understand cultural differences, recognize potential biases, and look beyond differences to work productively with children, families, and communities whose cultural contexts are different from one’s own. In this section you will find resources that describe the elements of being culturally responsive.
- Help maintain cultural connections that are crucial for a child’s identity development. In this section, find resources to help reconnect adopted children with their cultural roots in meaningful ways.
- Help families that need additional information and support as they raise children from a different racial or cultural background with the resources from the preparing families for racially and culturally diverse adoptions web section.
- Get resources about implementing antiracism practices and working with diverse populations at a systems level.
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Episode 59: “What Did Child Welfare Learn from 2020 - upEnding Systemic Racism”
This episode features members of the Center for the Study of Social Policy and the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work who lead the upEND movement. This movement seeks to reimagine how we support and serve families of color and eliminate the causes that create these harmful conditions.
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Episode 68: "Reimagining Child Welfare - Oregon's Vision for Transformation"
This episode features one jurisdiction moving from discussion to action. Oregon’s Child Welfare Division has released its Vision for Transformation, which documents a strategic roadmap to success, including specific guiding principles, strategies, and measurable outcomes.
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Episode 64: "Reunification"
This episode focuses on the current reality of reunification across our public child welfare system. Hear a conversation among members of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, The Children’s Bureau, and an alumnus of foster care.
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