Acknowledging Disproportionate Outcomes and Changing Service Delivery

Autor/in	McRoy, Ruth G.
Titel	Acknowledging Disproportionate Outcomes and Changing Service Delivery
Quelle	In: Child Welfare, 87 (2008) 2, S.205-210 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4021
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Whites; Poverty; Stress Variables; Delivery Systems; Institutionalized Persons; Correctional Institutions; African American Children; Child Welfare; Foster Care; Disproportionate Representation; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Influences; Racial Discrimination + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? White; Weißer; Armut; Auslieferung; Jugendstrafvollzug; African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Kindeswohl; Pflegehilfe; Rassenunterschied; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Racial bias; Rassismus
Abstract	Child welfare is not the only system in which disparities have been identified in U.S. foster care. According to the recent Children's Defense Fund's report "America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline," racial and economic disparities exist in many systems including child welfare, health care, mental health, education, and juvenile and criminal justice. It is clearly time to look at the multisystemic context of racial disparities in child welfare and to explore multisystemic solutions. In 2006, Representative Charlie Rangel of New York called for a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study to examine the experiences of African American children in foster care. According to the GAO, not only are African American children more likely than white children to be placed in foster care. In this article, the author discusses the impact of poverty, stress, discrimination, and incarceration to African American children's overrepresentation in child welfare. The author also provides recommendations for addressing these problems. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Child Welfare League of America. P.O. Box 932831, Atlanta, GA 31193-2831. Tel: 800-407-6273; Tel: 770-280-4164; e-mail: order@cwla.org; Web site: http://www.cwla.org/pubs
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10