US: The Race Equity Crisis Facing Child Welfare Leaders (Commentary)
Imprint – September 27, 2021
Racial disproportionality is well documented in the child welfare space. We know the problem well. In fact, investigating families of color and removing their children operates like a bad habit that we are willing to acknowledge but just cannot seem to find a way to fix. One reason we cannot fix it is that our systems are built to address crisis moments rather than root causes. This is how bias and inequity become institutionalized in our public systems and their work. They ignore, or do not fully comprehend, that historical and structural constraints block many Black and brown people from equal access to opportunity – often starting at birth.
https://imprintnews.org/opinion/the-race-equity-crisis-facing-child-welfare-leaders/59110