For additional resources, please visit the following Hot Topics webpages:

• Children and Youth of Color

• Disproportionate Representation of Children and Youth of Color in the Child Welfare System

• Immigration and Child Welfare

• Indian Child Welfare Issues

• Latino Issues in Child Welfare

Resources

• Evidence-Based Practice in Child Welfare in the Context of Cultural Competence
  A free online learning workshop about the juncture of evidence-based practice and cultural competence in child welfare is now available. The learning workshop consists of six self-study modules useful for workers, supervisors, administrators and students who are interested in improving practice and managing to achieve culturally competent, evidence-based practice. Viewers of the workshop can proceed at their own pace and may take optional quizzes at the end of the modules to test their knowledge.  The information presented in the workshop came out of a forum held at the University of Minnesota that included a series of talks, panels, and small group discussions of professionals and community members from around the country. 
  

   

• Parenting Across Cultures
  Parenting Across Cultures is a short article in SGI Quarterly that looks at how mothers and fathers approach similar aspects of childrearing differently around the world.  For example, while every parent puts their child to bed, culture usually dictates when and how parents go about this universal parental duty.  This article also discusses how parenting practices become so ingrained in one culture that they seem like the obvious solution to those within that society.  This is a quick-read that service providers working with parents from different cultural backgrounds may find helpful. (January 2009)
  

   

• Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices across Cultural Groups
  Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices across Cultural Groups is a research brief by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that explores cultural issues around parenting in five different U.S. cultural groups: Asian Americans, Latin Americans, African Americans, American Indians, and non-Hispanic white Americans.  The CDC brief recognizes that culture plays a major role in parenting and can even determine how a parent judges and responds to “good” or “bad” behavior.  This study also found such variations within one culture, depending upon the country or tribe of origin.  All in all, the brief emphasizes that healthy parenting programs and messages are most effective when they are sensitive to cultural norms. (2008)
  
  

• Considering the Diversity Factor in Training: A Trainer’s Handbook
  The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program is strongly committed to the goal of building cultural competence in the Child Welfare System. The Diversity Task Force, which is part of The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program, undertook this special project in order to provide trainers, curriculum writers, and training managers with resources and tools that are believed to be critical in curriculum development and training presentation and facilitation. The purpose of the handbook is to assist persons in more easily and effectively incorporating issues of human diversity into curriculum development and training presentation. (2001)
  
  

  
  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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