Achieving Racial Equity: Child Welfare Policy Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Children of Color
(Center for the Study of Social Policy)
2022
This report depicts the racial inequalities in foster care and provides recommendations to remove those disparities including promoting nuanced data (mandate the collection of data by race, ethnicity, gender and age, invest in longitudinal data collection), developing evidence base for policies and programs, supporting cross system collaboration.
Structures of Oppression in the U.S. Child Welfare System: Reflections on Administrative Barriers to Equity
(MDPI)
2022
This article highlights the structures primarily the policies, law and regulations that contribute or reinforce the racial disparities in the child welfare system. Those structures include mandated reporting, substantiation decisions, decision making processes, background checks and conservative interpretations of confidentiality statutes.
Race and the Work of the Future: Advancing Workforce Equity in the United States
(PolicyLink)
2022
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of long-standing racial gaps in labor market outcomes, the economic impacts of Covid-19, and the racial equity implications of automation.
Earnings instability and child protection: Evidence from state administrative data
(The Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2021
This study examines the impact of income stability--measured by one-time
wage shocks, cumulative wage shocks, and stable earnings duration—on child maltreatment risk.
Transforming Child Welfare: Prioritizing Prevention, Racial Equity, and Advancing Child and Family
Well-Being
(National Council on Family Relations)
2021
This policy brief advances several recommendations for policymakers to transform child welfare system through prevention lens and address institutional racism. Those recommendations focus on mandatory reporting systems, investing in evidence based interventions, and increasing funding for kinship care
Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System: Why Do They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Address Them?
(The American Academy of Political and Social Science)
2021
This study uncovers the causes of racial disproportionality in the child welfare system and address the structural and institutional racism that contribute to the separation of children from their families.
The Surveillance Tentacles Of The Child Welfare System
(The Columbia Journal of Race And Law)
2021
This report examines the impact of cross system surveillance (medical providers, social services agencies, the police and school) in child welfare and highlights the inequalities implications of these cross sector surveillance especially the disproportionate effects on Black and Brown families.
Federal Policies Can Address the Impact of Structural Racism on Black Families’ Access to Early Care and Education
(Child Trends)
2021
This brief sheds light on the role of federal policies in creating, maintaining, and addressing inequities brought about by structural racism, with a specific focus on access to early care and education for Black families.
Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity
(Brookings Institute)
2021
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the role of segregation, discrimination, and racism in the housing market, as well as policy opportunities and recommendations to reduce these racial disparities.
Methods and leading practices for advancing equity and support for underserved communities through government
(Office of Management and Budget)
2021
Office of Budget and Management summary of its request for information on existing tools and approaches to advance race equity, especially for underserved communities.
The intersection of adolescent development and Anti-Black racism
(UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent)
2021
Report synthesizes research on the effect of racism on key developmental milestones of adolescence such as identity formation and belonging and agency.
What we owe young children
(Center for the Study of Social Policy)
2021
This report examines the root causes of systemic inequalities and advances anti-racist families and early childhood policies to ensure well-being of ally young children.
The roots of structural racism project
(Othering and Belonging Institute)
2021
This report provides an interactive mapping tool to identify racial residential segregation across the United States.
Black Americans say coronavirus has hit hard financially, but impact varies by education level, age.
(Pew Research Center)
2021
This report assesses the economic effect of the pandemic on financial outlook of Black families through the Center’s American Trends Panel survey.
For love of country: A path for the federal government to advance racial equity
(Policy Link)
2021
This report provides resources for how the federal government and its agencies can help build an equitable society.
It’s time for a new approach in race equity
(McKinsey & Company)
2021
This report explores a new concerted and coordinate effort across different sectors to reverse negative trends of racial inequality.
Opportunity Insights
(Harvard University)
2021
Report explores racial disparities in income mobility in the U.S
Roots of Health Inequality
(National Association of County Health Officials)
2021
Online learning collaborative that explores root causes of health inequality
Child Maltreatment 2020
2020
Child Maltreatment 2020 presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services (CPS) agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year (FFY) 2020. The data are collected and analyzed through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), Children’s Bureau (Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families) of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.
Start with Equity: 14 Priorities to Dismantle Systemic Racism in Early Care and Education
(ASU’s Center for Child and Family Success)
2020
This report outlines 14 critical priorities and actionable policies that federal and state policymakers can immediately and concretely utilize to advance equity in the early care and education system.
A Pandemic within a pandemic: How Coronavirus and systemic racism are harming infants and toddlers of color
(The Center for Law and Social Policy)
2020
Report examines the impact of systemic racism on children’s development and assesses how the pandemic have amplified systemic inequalities in health, education, and employment
How the foster care system has become ground zero for the U.S drug war
(Movement for Family Power)
2020
Report explores the impact of the foster system on Black and Brown families and communities including the effect of drug usage within those families
Reflections and recommendations from interviews with eight childhood Education policy leaders of color: Why is everyone at the policy tables so White?
(University of Maryland)
2020
This report explores the difficulties of involving people of color in the decision-making process and share recommendations on how childhood policymaking can be more ethnically diverse and inclusive
Closing the racial inequality gaps: The economic cost of black inequality in the U.S
(Global Perspectives and Solutions)
2020
This report identifies root causes of racial and economic gaps amplified by COVID-19 and outlines governmental actions to eliminate those gaps.
The dual crisis: How the COVID-19 recession deepens racial and economic inequality among communities of color
(The Center for Law and Social Policy)
2020
This report examines the impact of COVID on communities of color and recommends numerous federal and state policies to support Black workers.
laborative that explores root causes of health inequality
We Treat Everybody the Same: Race Equity in Child Welfare
(Social Work in Public Health)
2019
This report explores the implicit bias and the disparate entry of African American in the child welfare system and assesses the role racism in the equitable provision of child welfare services.
What Would It Take To Overcome The Damaging Effects of Structural Racism and Ensure a More Equitable Future?
(Urban Institute)
2019
This brief gives particular attention to the policies and practices that have systematically disadvantaged Black people while recognizing that Native American people, Latinx people, and people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent also have experienced profound injustices and face continuing inequities.
Moving Forward Together: CSSP’s Journey to Center Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
(Center for the Study of Social Policy)
2019
Short narrative summarizing the Center for the Study of Social Policy’s journey towards advancing race equity.
A case study in public child welfare: county-level practices that address racial disparity in foster care placement
(Journal of Public Child Welfare)
2018
This study assesses through interviews and focus groups the drivers in the decline of black children in foster care. The study reveals some promising practices such as community collaboration, workforce diversity and the court system to cope with the overrepresentation of black children in the foster care system.
Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual
(Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
2017
Framework for local governments to apply a theory of change for implementing a racial equity action plan.
Fresno County Department of Social Services:
Confronting Racial Inequities and Disproportionality to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children & Families
(Center for the Study of Social Policy)
2015
This report explores the drivers of the over-representation of African Americans children in the child welfare system through a robust engagement with commu+E2:F9nity partnerships and leveraging new funding streams and improving transparency with families about DSS operations and decision making.
Talking Productively About Race in the Colorblind Era
(Kirwan Institute)
2015
Report examines the variances of racial colorblindness and its implications on race equity
Disparities and Disproportionality in Child Welfare: Analysis of the Research
(Convened by the Center for the Study of Social Policy and The Annie E. Casey Foundation on behalf of The Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare)
2011
This study examines child welfare decision making stages in Child Protective Services referrals, investigations, substantiations, placement in foster care, exits from foster care and assesses their equity implications in service delivery
Understanding and Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in the Front End of the Child Welfare System
(Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work)
2008
This report combs the literature examining disproportionality in the front end of child welfare systems and identifies some evidence based practices to improve child welfare processes and outcome for families of color.
Proven Strategies for Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
(Cook Ross)
2008
Study examines unconscious bias and testing mechanisms and prevention strategies
Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive, & Antiracist Organization
(Safe House)
2005
Brief packet with frameworks, definitions, and resources for building an inclusive and tolerant organizational culture.