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Children & Youth of Color
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For information on Indian child welfare issues, please visit our Hot Topics page at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/indian-child-welfare.html
For information on Latino child welfare issues, please visit our Hot Topics page at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/latino-child-welfare.html
For information on the disproportionate representation of children and youth of color in the child welfare system, please visit our Hot Topics page at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/disproportionate.html
Resources
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Unique Strengths, Shared Strengths: Developmental Assets Among Youth of Color
New Search Institute research shows that African American, American Indian, Asian American, Latino/Latina, White, and Multiracial youth all benefit similarly from experiencing more of the 40 developmental assets in their lives, regardless of their socioeconomic status. At the same time, the importance of particular categories of assets varies by race/ethnicity, suggesting the need for focused, ongoing dialogue within communities of color about their unique strengths and opportunities for nurturing healthy children and youth.
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The Role of Race in Parental Reunification
This chapter of a larger report, Assessing the Context of Permanency and Reunification in the Foster Care System, explores whether race is a strong predictor of reunification when combined with other child, family, or case history characteristics, and whether the main effect of race is reduced when controlling for other important predictors of reunification.
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African American Males in Foster Care and the Risk of Delinquency
The Winter 2006 issue of CWLA's The Link contains this article summarizing several key findings from a forthcoming study on the importance of attachment, commitment, and perceptions of permanence for African American males in foster care.
- The Academic Experiences of African American Males in an Urban Midwest Foster Care System
This study examined impediments to academic achievement for African American males in foster care. Data was collected from the Ohio Proficiency Test and from questionnaires distributed to foster parents and social workers. . The study found that African American males in foster care achieved consistently lower scores than the comparison groups on most portions of the proficiency test, and differences were significant in many cases.
NRCFCPPP Information Packets
Bibliographies
Websites
- Evidence-Based Practice in Child Welfare in the Context of Cultural Competence
This forum was held in June 2007 at the University of Minnesota to respond to the problem of increasing pressure to demonstrate positive outcomes in child welfare services coupled with rather sparse evidence on what works for the children and families most likely to be served by these agencies. In addition, while children of color are often disproportionately represented in foster care, there is little information about the actual effectiveness of culturally sensitive and culturally competent approaches to practice. The goal of the meeting was to produce a plan to address this problem nationally and to craft pragmatic strategies that could be immediately applied in practice and policy.The proceedings of the meeting are available on this Web site, including links to videos, pod casts, Breeze presentations, and texts of the main portions of the forum. For those wishing to hold a similar discussion in their own agency, community or state, online products will soon include guidelines, instructions, and supporting documents to aid these discussions.
- Children of Color in the Child Welfare System
The Child Welfare League of America National Data Analysis System has put together a series of web pages on this topic that includes statistics, research, state initiatives, and more.
Last updated 12/28/07
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