Disproportionate Minority Representation
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On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, an Iowa school teacher gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had ...
HHS and Congressional Actions Could Help Reduce Proportion in Care Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives Statement of Kay Brown, Director Education, Workforce, and In ...
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Indicators of child and family well-being show troubling disparities or disproportionality by race. This toolkit is designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials achieve results that provide opportunity for all children, families, and ...
This presentation and the Child Safety Guide are both a collaboration between the National Resource Centers on Child Protective Services and the National Resource Center for Legal and Judicial Issues. The expertise of both these RC’s combines to give t ...
Children & Family Research Center Nancy Rolock Updated October 2008 In this report we look at disproportionate representation in the child welfare system in Illinois for children of different races/ethnicities. Since geography (where a child lives) p ...
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New York Times OpEd Article By RICHARD E. NISBETT Published: February 7, 2009 Richard E. Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, is the author of “Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count.” http://w ...
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Knowing Who You Are is a curriculum is designed for child welfare professionals, caretakers, and other adults involved in child welfare. The e-learning is the second part of this three-part curriculum. The e-learning builds on introductory concepts presen ...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has launched the Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Virtual Resource Center. This online center provides DMC coordinators, state advisory group members, and other juvenile justice prof ...
Paper prepared for: The Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity whose members are the Annie E. Casey Foundation, including Casey Family Services, Casey Family Programs, and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative; The Marguerite Casey Foundation; and t ...
A Scan of Eleven States A paper prepared by the Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare October 2009 (amended June 2010) http://www.policyforresults.org/
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Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Fred Wulczyn, Bridgette Lery September 2007 According to national data, although African American children make up only 15 percent of the children living in the United States, roughly 37 p ...
Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in the Child Welfare System Robert B. Hill, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Westat October 2006 Th e disproportionate representation of minority children in child welfare has been a major concern for decades. Th is pap ...