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Beyond
the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice
This
new guidebook from Teaching Tolerance offers practical advice for caregivers of
children in three age groups: preschool, elementary grades, and teen years. Teaching
Tolerance calls this a comprehensive guide to helping parents and other caregivers
nurture an appreciation for diversity. http://www.tolerance.org/parents/
Chapin
Hall Report: Analyzing Racial Disparity in the
Foster Care System
A
new Chapin Hall report seeks to understand why African American children are overrepresented
in Tennessee’s foster care system and to explore strategies that could bring
greater equity to the delivery of child welfare services. The study examines differences
in the likelihood that children will enter foster care, and assesses how length
of stay and exit types influence disproportionality. Read the full report, Entry
and Exit Disparities in the Tennessee Foster Care System, by Fred Wulczyn,
Bridgette Lery and Jennifer Haight.
Promising Practices to Address Racial
Disproportionality
Places
to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare
Services, documents the efforts of ten jurisdictions as they attempt to address
and change the contributing factors that have led to racial disproportionality
in their child welfare systems. This report highlights 10 communities, 6 of which
are Family to Family sites. (This is a product of the Casey Alliance for Racial
Equity.)
Disproportionality Paper
Written by Westat researcher,
Robert B. Hill, PHD, the Synthesis
of Research on Disproportionality in Child Welfare: An Update, explores the
reasons and the data behind the disproportionality of children of color within
the child welfare system. The report explores patterns of disproportionality,
the role race plays at various decision points within the system, the degree of
racially disparate treatment in child welfare and the ways in which other social
systems contribute to this disproportionality. (This is a product of the Casey
Alliance for Racial Equity.)
A Racial Rift That Isn't
Black and White, by Rachell L. Swarns, The New York Times, October 3, 2006
- For centuries, the South has been defined by the color line and the struggle
for accommodation between blacks and whites. But the arrival of hundreds of thousands
of Hispanic immigrants over the past decade is quietly changing the dynamics of
race relations in many Southern towns. Read
more
Proposal Adds Options for Students to Specify
Race, by Elissa Gootman, The New York Times - The Federal Education
Department has proposed new regulations allowing college student to choose more
than one racial category. Read
more
Read Ralph Martire’s most recent Chicago Sun-Times
column, “Racism
still blocks opportunity for blacks, Hispanics”.
The Annie
E. Casey Foundation (AECF) works to build better futures for disadvantaged
children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation
is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that
more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. Visit
www.aecf.org.
CARTA
A
national, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the healthy development
of all young people, specifically youth of color. This is accomplished by building
the capacity of the adults directly serving youth (including adolescent health
providers, educators, policy makers and youth-service professionals) through a
range of services and practical strategies designed to transform the systems and
policies that impact the way that youth advocates work.
After several years
of comprehensive research, CARTA has cultivated a framework that addresses the
racial disparities existing in communities across the country, which are mainly
attributed to structural racism, and promotes strategies that engage whole communities
in dismantling them. To learn more about CARTA's Structural Racism framework,
visit: www.cartainc.org.
