June 14, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare, discusses efforts to decrease racial disparity in child-welfare systems across the United States. The publication quotes a 2004 Pew Commission report that indicated that, though minority children comprise 33 percent of the child population, they represent 55 percent of the foster-care population. This new report, prepared by the Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare, part of the Center for the Study of Social Policy in New York, describes promising shifts in child-welfare systems in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington. Those areas are working to decrease the overrepresentation of minority children in the welfare system through changes in services or administration, putting new practices into effect, creating community partnerships and advisory boards, and other approaches to the problem.
Publisher: Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, 700 Broadway, Suite 301, New York, N.Y. 10003; (212) 979-2369; fax (212) 995-8756; http://www.cssp.org; 100 pages; available free for download on the organization’s Web site.
