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Racial disproportionality in child welfare / Marian S. Harris.
LIBRA HV741 .H339 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Marian Sabrina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Social service and race relations.
- United States.
- Social work with minorities--United States.
- Social work with minorities.
- Social work with African American children.
- Social service and race relations--United States.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 332 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- The number of Children of Color entering the child welfare system in the United States is disproportionately high. Not only are children of color removed from parental custody and placed in care more often than their white counterparts, but they also remain in care longer, receive fewer services, and have less contact with the caseworkers assigned to them. This book identifies the practice and policy changes required to successfully address the unequal treatment of children of color in the child welfare system and their implications for social work education, caseworker training, and institutional change. It critiques many of the existing social welfare acts and policies in terms of their treatment of children of color, and it provides best practices for each decision point in the child welfare process and for cultural competency measures and training. The text offers extensive measurement instruments that agencies can use to assess and correct institutional racism. To improve social work education, the book includes several model syllabi for the curriculum, and to deepen the discipline's engagement with the issue of institutional racism, the text concludes with a discussion of future directions for research and policy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Social welfare policy and child welfare
- An international exploration of disproportionality
- Best practices/promising practices
- Child welfare system change
- Social work curriculum
- Future directions for research and policy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231150460
- 0231150466
- 9780231150477
- 0231150474
- OCLC:
- 863199730
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