African American perspectives on racial disparities in child removals

Kokaliari, Effrosyni D.; Roy, Ann W.; Taylor, J.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.12.023

Cited by 36 publications

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“…The lack of attention to families' contexts and communities in assessment and service planning may relate to whether parents feel that the cost associated with using public transportation will yield worthwhile benefits from services. In a study of Black parents involved in the child welfare system, the persistent and severe poverty was underscored by a lack of responsiveness of child advocates to understand the true impact of poverty (Kokaliari et al, 2019).…”

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Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation

Findley

Crutchfield

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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Families involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) face daunting steps to meet their service plan goals in the effort to achieve reunification with their children. Families who lack transportation access face additional barriers. This study explored Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, volunteers' perspectives of the impact of transportation access on child welfare‐involved families' service participation. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine CASA volunteers in a large city in a Southeastern state. Questions were asked regarding volunteers' experiences of transportation access for parents and children. Primary emphasis was placed on families' access to services. Three primary themes emerged in the data analysis: (1) challenges are wide‐ranging, exacerbated by transportation issues; (2) transportation linked to court‐ordered services success; and (3) practical recommendations stem from transportation justice. Interviews illuminated transportation challenges faced by families involved with CPS. The observed link between transportation inequity and CPS permanency outcomes warrants serious consideration in future research. Recommendations provide initial guidance to begin addressing disparities faced by these families.

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Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation

Findley

Crutchfield

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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“…This is an especially noteworthy finding as children of color are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system, with studies pointing to concerns of bias and discrimination (Ards et al, 2012;Drake et al, 2009;Kim & Drake, 2018). Consequently, a possible explanation for this difference is that it could have captured the stigma and distrust of systems like law enforcement associated with reporting and discussing child maltreatment in communities of color (Brown et al, 2019;Edwards, 2019;Kokaliari et al, 2019;Lancaster, 2017). The differences by income associated with issue relevance can likely be due to the known pervasive effects of poverty, as discussed above.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public Opinions About Child Maltreatment in South Carolina: Salience, Relevance, Prevention, and Support for Government Intervention

Srivastav

Nelson

Strompolis

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Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

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Substantial evidence demonstrates that child maltreatment is preventable through approaches that address the socio-environmental contexts that shape attitudes and behaviors. Understanding opinions about child maltreatment can inform efforts to influence policy and practice changes that promote child health and well-being. This study examined public opinions about child maltreatment in South Carolina. A telephone survey was conducted in Fall 2019 with a random sample of adults ( N = 1,145) in the state. Respondents rated the extent to which they agreed that child maltreatment is an important issue (salience), whether it is a problem in their community (relevance), whether it is preventable (prevention orientation), whether child maltreatment prevention is a good use of their tax dollars, and whether child maltreatment can be prevented through government intervention. Stronger issue salience was significantly associated with stronger beliefs about government intervention to prevent child maltreatment after adjustment for demographics ( B = 0.69, p < .0001). Stronger issue relevance ( B = 0.05, p = .08) and stronger prevention orientation ( B = 0.19, p < .001) were also significantly associated with stronger beliefs about government intervention to prevent child maltreatment after adjustment for demographics. Results indicate that changing public opinions about child maltreatment—specifically around issue salience, relevance, and prevention orientation—could have implications for communications interventions that seek to generate support for government intervention to prevent child maltreatment.

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“…Racism is also noted in the way Black families experience disparities through deficient services (e.g., lengthy stay in care when compared with their White counterparts) once they are involved with child welfare systems Contenta et al, 2015). The overrepresentation of Black families in child welfare and the disparities in their experience reflect a complex web of economic and societal factors including poverty, income inequality, geographic location, lack of access to resources, and discrimination (Kokaliari et al, 2019) and oversurveillance of racialized communities (Baldwin, 2018), all of which extend far beyond what occurs within child welfare.…”

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A critical analysis of the Assessment and Action Record (AAR) documentation: Examining the educational experiences of Black youth-in-care in Ontario

Kikulwe

Sato

Agyei

2021

INYI

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This article focuses on the Ontario Assessment and Action Record (AAR), used in child welfare to understand how this documentation supports (and fails to support) Black youth-in-care and their academic needs. We applied a critical review and analysis of three distinct but interconnected sources of data: 1) the AAR-C2-2016; 2) literature on the education of Black youth-in-care in Ontario; 3) policy and agency documents concerning how this group is faring. In our analysis of the AAR and its education dimension, findings suggest the AAR has been a race-neutral tool, which has implications in terms of how we conceptualize structural barriers faced by Black children and youth-in-care. We identified gaps and potential practice dilemmas for child welfare workers when using AAR documentation procedures. Using Critical Race Theory and the United Nations human rights framework, we argue that the AAR can be a tool to identify, monitor, and challenge oppression for Black children and youth-in-care who experience a continual negotiation of racialization alongside being a foster child. The AAR recordings can be harmful if they are simply a collection of information on the key areas of a child’s life. Prioritizing the academic needs of Black children in care is critical to social work and aligns with the commitments of One Vision, One Voice, Ontario’s Anti-Racism Strategic Plan as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly in relation to the right to education.

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African American perspectives on racial disparities in child removals

Cited by 36 publications

References 17 publications

Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation

Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation

Public Opinions About Child Maltreatment in South Carolina: Salience, Relevance, Prevention, and Support for Government Intervention

A critical analysis of the Assessment and Action Record (AAR) documentation: Examining the educational experiences of Black youth-in-care in Ontario

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