Using racial disproportionality and disparity indicators to measure child welfare outcomes

Editorial: Commentary on Disproportionality in Child Welfare Terry L. Cross PART I - UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY AND DISPARITY OF OUTCOMES Measuring Racial Disparity in Child Welfare

Racial bias in child protection? A comparison of competing explanations using national data.

OBJECTIVE Cases of child abuse and neglect that involve black children are reported to and substantiated by public child welfare agencies at a rate approximately twice that of cases that involve white children. A range of studies have been performed to assess the degree to which this racial disproportionality is attributable to racial bias in physicians, nurses, and other professionals mandated...

Understanding and addressing racial/ethnic disproportionality in the front end of the child welfare system.

Racial/ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system is a complicated social problem that is receiving increasing amounts of attention from researchers and practitioners. This review of the literature examines disproportionality in the front-end of the child welfare system and interventions that may address it. While none of the interventions had evidence suggesting that they reduced di...

A Snapshot of Research in Child Welfare Disproportionality and Disparity

Dialogue and a deeper understanding of disproportionality and disparity in child welfare are crucial to crafting effective policy and practice. This document introduces the literature on disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system. It includes a brief overview of key themes in the literature, summaries of sample articles representing different perspectives, and a longer referen...

Exploring Disproportionality in the Illinois Child Welfare System

Disproportionality in the child welfare system refers to the overor underrepresentation of a group (usually a racial/ethnic group) compared to that group’s representation in a base population (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2016). This research brief explores rates of racial disproportionality in the Illinois child welfare system. It is the second brief in a series exploring disproportional...