Ebook: Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare
- Tags: Child welfare, Child welfare--United States, Race discrimination, Race discrimination--United States, Social service and race relations, Social service and race relations--United States, Social work with African American children, Social work with minorities, Social work with minorities--United States, Child welfare -- United States, Social work with minorities -- United States, Social service and race relations -- United States, Race discrimination -- United States, United States
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
The number of children of color entering the child welfare system in the United States is disproportionately high. This is especially true among African-American children, who, though they comprise 15% of children in the U.S., account for 37% of the total children placed in foster care. The numbers are also high for Native American and Latino children. 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. The work critiques many of the existing social welfare acts and policies in terms of their treatment of children of color, and it...