Reports & Studies

• A Practice Guide for Working with African American Families in the Child Welfare System (M. Rockymore, Minnesota State Department of Human Services Child Safety and Permanency Division, September 2006)
  
• An Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality and Disparity at the National, State, and County Levels (Hill, Bob, Race Matters Consortium Westat; Casey Family Programs; Annie E. Casey Foundation; Casey Family Services; Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2007)
• African American Children in Foster Care: Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care (U.S. Government Accountability Office, Report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, GAO-07-816, July 2007)
  
• America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, July 2007)
  
• America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline (A Report of the Children's Defense Fund, October 2007)
  
• Bridging the Cultural Divide in Health Care Settings: The Essential Role of Cultural Broker Programs (National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, Georgetown University Medical Center, 2004)
  
• Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI), 1975-2005, With Projections for 2006 (The Foundation for Child Development, 2007 Report)
  
• Implementing Differential Response in California: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned (Casey Family Programs, Breakthrough Series Collaborative, February 2007)
  
• Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare (The Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, December 2006)
  
• Racial Disparity in Foster Care Admissions (F. Wulczyn & B. Lery, Chapin Hall Center for Children at The University of Chicago, September 2007)
  
• Racial Disproportionality, Race Disparity, and Other Race-Related Findings in Published Works Derived from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (Dunbar, Keesha; Barth, Richard, University of North Carolina; University of Maryland; CSSP; The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Casey Family Services, 2008)
  
• Synthesis of Research on Disproportionality in Child Welfare: An Update (R.B. Hill, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Westat, The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Casey Family Services, 2007)
  
• The State of Black California (A Report From The California Legislative Black Caucus, January 2007)
  
• Unsuccessful In-Home Child Welfare Service Plans Following a Maltreatment Investigation: Racial and Ethnic Disparities (Kohl, Patricia, Casey-CSSP Alliance; Washington University; The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2007).
  
• Walking the Walk: A Guide to Diversity Resources for Trainers (Compiled and previewed by C. Catlett, P.J. Winton, R.N. Parrish & C. White, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2001)
  

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Videos 

• "Knowing Who You Are," a video from Casey Family Programs, features 23 individuals (youth in care, alumni, child welfare professionals, birth families, and resource families) sharing their perspectives about why race and ethnicity matter and the importance of integrating racial and ethnic identity into child welfare practice. (2005)
  

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Websites

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General/Other

• Fairness & Equity Resources in the California Child Welfare Resource Library
  

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