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• Investing in Families through Economic Supports: An Anti-racist Approach to Supporting Families and Reducing Child Welfare Involvement.

  Authors:Alexandra Citrin, Megan Martin, and Clare AndersonFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20229,240 words Report 1740LFederal policies that perpetuate inequities and drive Black, Native, Latinx, and immigrant families into poverty also have led to disproportionate involvement in child welfare for families of color. To address the...

• 'Our Agency Doesn't Like to Use the Word Racism Let Alone Talk about It': Firsthand Stories of Workplace Racism in Child Welfare.

  Authors:Sreyashi Chakravarty and Catherine K. LawrenceFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20227,772 words Report 1480LWorkplace racism threatens organizational health and individual employee well-being. This mixed-methods study asks a sample of child welfare workers (n=309) to share their experiences of workplace racism. Analysis...

• Approaches from Related Fields to Integrate Anti-racist Initiatives into Child Welfare.

  Authors:Anita P. Barbee, Andrew M. Winters, and Emma M. Sterrett-HongFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20228,392 words Report 1670LEliminating racism, specifically anti-Black racism, requires systematic organizational change at every level (e.g., structural, policy, interpersonal, and personal) with attunement to the intersections within and between...

• Aunties, Uncles, Me Maws, and Play Cousins: Exploring Trends in Formal Kinship Care for Black Families in Texas.

  Authors:Sherri Y. Simmons-Horton, Tanya N. Rollins, Richard Harris, and Ashley BlackmoreFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20227,889 words Report 1550LBlack families have the tradition of rearing children through extended family and informal relationships. Child welfare policies, forcibly separating children from families, have diminished this tradition, fraying...

• Beyond Human-centered Design: The Promise of Anti-racist Community-centered Approaches in Child Welfare Program and Policy Design.

  Authors:Sonya Soni, Jessica Mason, and Jermeen ShermanFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20227,763 words Report 1700LTo meaningfully and effectively dismantle white supremacy within the child welfare system, we must redesign the way we respond to children and families experiencing adversity for more equitable outcomes. A growing number...

• Introduction: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches.

  Author:Christine James-BrownFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20221,617 words Article 1680LThis issue of Child Welfare journal, Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches, strives to promote discussion and research that encourages a more just, equitable, anti-racist approach to safety,...

• From the Editor: "Why are All the Kids Black and All the Staff White?": Anti-racism Work in Child Welfare.

  Author:Gerald P. MallonFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 2022697 words Editorial 1440L"Why are all the kids Black and all the staff White?," asked Leslie, my then-nine-year-old neurodivergent daughter, when she was a child in the out-of-home-care system. Leslie, who is Black, was puzzled by what she had...

• Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare: A Problem With 'Bias' in the Research.

  Author:Reiko BoydFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20226,274 words Report 1600LA fundamental flaw of research on racial disproportionality and disparity is that these problems have not been widely studied with a lens toward systemic racism and oppression. This analysis examines how the topic of...

• 'They Don't Understand Us and are Afraid of Us': Black Social Workers' Perspectives on the Role of Anti-Blackness within Foster Care Service Provision to Black Children.

  Author:Dominique Mikell MontgomeryFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 20225,791 words Report 1390LThe study examines how anti-Blackness impacts Black children in foster care through understanding how Black social workers (N = 18) experience serving Black children. Results demonstrate that participants believe the...

• A Note on Style.

  Author:Rachel AdamsFrom:Child Welfare (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan-Feb 202257 words Brief article 1500LChild Welfare follows the style guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. In this special double issue of the journal, some of our authors have chosen to use the...