ISSUE BRIEF Disparities in Child Welfare: Considering the Implementation of Differential Response
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This issue brief seeks to explore the ways in which a differential response-organized Child Protection System (CPS) might help to mitigate disparate outcomes in child welfare while highlighting current gaps in knowledge and indicating areas for further research. It builds on discussions started at the Information Summit on Disproportionality sponsored by the National Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services (QIC-DR), held in March 2009. This brief describes the relevant issues related to disproportionality and disparities in current child welfare practice and prompts an examination of how reforming the front end of the CPS system may result in different opportunities for families, particularly those of color.
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Reducing racial disparities and disproportionalities in the child welfare system: Policy perspectives about how to serve the best interests of African American youth
⁎ Tel.: +1 415 794 5859; fax: +1 510 643 6126. E-mail address: [email protected]. 1 A disparity refers to the differential likelihood of a subgroup entering or exiting the child welfare system c another background (Wulczyn & Lery, 2007). The proble issue of the overrepresentation or underrepresentatio different stages in the child welfare intervention process the general population (Chapin Ha...
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