| 9 Proven Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Your Workplace | This article lists 9 ways to improve DEIB within your workplace. | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| NCWWI Leadership Academy | The NCWWI Leadership Academy provides supervisors and managers with opportunities to become skilled in leading change, fostering collaborations, implementing results-oriented … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Workforce Development Planning | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2020 |
| Dear Leaders Tool | This resource includes starting points for child welfare leaders who seek to bring family voice and power into the system. | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States | This report offers recommendations for strengthening child-sensitive reception, care, and services for unaccompanied children in the United States. Drawing on … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| The Indian Child Welfare Act – What We Need to Know on “Active Efforts” | A video sharing the history of ICWA as well as the present state of ICWA. Practice considerations and practice examples … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | Video | 2022 |
| Integrating Positive Youth Development and Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Approaches Across the Child Welfare and Justice Systems | This paper explores why systems need a new emphasis on Positive Youth Development (PYD) approaches that incorporate racial equity and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports | Report/Paper | 2022 |
| Putting Family First: Developing an Evidence-Based Child Welfare Preventive Practice Model | This paper provides guidance for state child welfare agencies on what to consider when developing a preventive practice model that … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | Report/Paper | 2020 |
| System Transformation Through Community Leadership: Strategies for building effective partnerships with Black and Brown communities | Chapin Hall has compiled key findings into five system transformation equity bulletins and a toolkit to make lessons from the … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual, Website | |
| Elevating Culturally Specific Evidence-Based Practices | This brief provides an overview of ten culturally specific programs and two culturally responsive interventions, the evidence for each, and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Kansas Racial Equity Collaborative | The Racial Equity Collaborative is a Kansas statewide effort to understand the history of racial inequities in child welfare and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | Video, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Undoing Racism Through Social Work: NASW Report to the Profession on Racial Justice Priorities and Action | As part of NASW’s collaborative five year social change initiative to strengthen their efforts to end racism in the social … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, System Reform | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Promoting Antiracist Child Welfare Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This 1-pager summarizes a study where authors interviewed 16 regional- and state-level public child welfare agency administrators representing 13 states … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Onboarding | The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians worked with the QIC-WD to develop an onboarding program. This video highlights the experience … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | Video | |
| Diversity Training | An overview of diversity training, its value, and how it works. | Advancing Racial Equity, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Diversity and Inclusion Climates | An overview of diversity and inclusion climates and how they can be improved. | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Using a Culturally Responsive Leadership Framework: NCWWI 1-page Summary | The authors developed a culturally responsive leadership framework (CRLF) to address context, distributive leadership, and cultural responsiveness. Examining these elements … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Supervision, Training, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Students’ Experiences of an Anishinaabe-Centered Social Work Education Program | This article, which is the second in a series of three, examines the social work education program at the Center … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Centering Child Welfare Worker Well-being | This infographic describes how child welfare organizations can center child welfare worker well-being to better support children and families. | Advancing Racial Equity, Burnout, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | Infographic, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Advancing Workplace Equity | This learning exchange, held on April 19, 2022, focused on how participants can advance workplace equity in child welfare. Panelists … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Collaborating to Enhance ICWA Knowledge and Practice | Held on March 21, 2022, this learning exchange focused on enhancing knowledge and understanding of ICWA and tribal sovereignty through … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Advancing Equity and Inclusion Through the Child and Family Services Reviews | This document provides guidelines and suggestions for how to integrate a focus on equity and inclusion into the stages and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| What Did Child Welfare Learn from 2020: upEnding Systemic Racism | This podcast episode is part of a series that examines what the child welfare field learned during 2020. It features … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Podcast | 2021 |
| Reflecting on Racial Equity and Inclusion | These short (one minute or less) videos provide reflection questions and link to a racial equity and inclusion resource. We … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2022 |
| Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace | Child welfare systems should foster a healthy organizational culture and climate and improve the well-being of the child welfare workforce. … | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | Video | 2021 |
| Everyday Workplace Discrimination: NCWWI 1-page Summary | Utilizing the Psychological Stressor-Strain theory, this study assessed the associations between everyday workplace discrimination, racial/ethnic identities, and psychological well-being among … | Advancing Racial Equity, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity | This bulletin provides a brief overview of the problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare … | Advancing Racial Equity, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Racial Equity Resources for Child Welfare Professionals | This website lists resources to support child welfare and related professionals in recognizing individual biases and dismantling systemic racism. | Advancing Racial Equity | Reference/Resource List, Website | 2021 |
| Racial Equity Resources for Child Welfare Systems | This webpage lists resources about implementing anti-racism practices and working with diverse populations at a systems level. | Advancing Racial Equity | Reference/Resource List, Website | 2021 |
| Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference? | This article outlines the nuances between equity and equality, with examples of each along with other similar concepts. It also … | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary, Website | 2020 |
| Learning to Speak Up for Equity In the Workplace | This article addresses common fears surrounding speaking up for equity in the workplace and how to overcome them. | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary, Website | 2019 |
| How did the blind removal process in Nassau County, N.Y., reduce disparity among children entering care? | This brief describes how Nassau County, NY reduced disparity among children entering foster care by implementing a blind removal process. | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| The Path to Racial Equity in Child Welfare: Valuing family and community | This policy summit report provides a history of racial equity in child welfare nad includes policy recommendations for reform. | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series Discussion Guide | The Advancing Racial Equity webinar series takes an in-depth look at racism as a driving force of the social determinants … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2021 |
| Tool for Building Stamina in Anti-Racism Practice: Moving from Protection to Connection | This Tool for Building Stamina (inspired by Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility* and grounded in our understanding of the biology … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2021 |
| Native Land Territory Acknowledgement | Territory acknowledgement is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual, Website | 2021 |
| Racial Equity Meeting Checklist (ACS) | The purpose of this checklist is to self-reflect and achieve an equity lens before any staff interaction and meetings (including … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| Key Equity Terms and Concepts: A Glossary for Shared Understanding | Developing a shared language for thoughtful discussion about equity is critical for all of our work. This glossary of key … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Within Data Integration | This body of work seeks to encourage shifts of awareness and practice, by centering racial equity and community voice within … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues | “The Racial Equity Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation and evaluation … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2012 |
| Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity | This article shares the authors’ observations of patterns of behavior by whites and people of color as we have experienced … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| One Journey: National Child Welfare Workforce Institute Racial Equity Team | This document describes how and why NCWWI created a Racial Equity Team. It includes considerations for developing and structuring the … | Advancing Racial Equity | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Advancing Inclusivity by Caucusing: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes experiences successfully implementing racial identity-based caucusing in an MSW program social justice class at a large public … | Advancing Racial Equity | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2021 |
| Tribal sovereign status: Conceptualizing its integration into the social work curriculum | This banded dissertation contains three related products: a conceptual article, a research article, and the development of an original social … | Advancing Racial Equity | Curricula/Training Material, Report/Paper | 2018 |
| Innovations Exchange Participant Summary on Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement | This document contains the feedback and recommendations from participants of the August 18, 2020, NCWWI Innovations Exchange on Inclusivity, Racial … | Advancing Racial Equity | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Racial Equity Discussion Guide | This discussion guide provides key messages, reflection questions, and resources for engaging partners in courageous conversations and planning to challenge … | Advancing Racial Equity | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| Building Community Resilience Policy and Advocacy Guide | The BCR Policy Guide is intended to assist organizations in becoming effective policy advocates and educators. It provides guidance to … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Five Guiding Principles for Integrating Racial and Ethnic Equity in Research | To advance the goal of incorporating a racial and ethnic equity perspective in research and evaluation, Child Trends presents five … | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary | 2019 |
| How to Embed a Racial and Ethnic Equity Perspective in Research | This document provides guidance on how child and youth researchers can incorporate a racial and ethnic equity perspective across the … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Operationalizing Equity: putting the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s racial and ethnic equity and inclusion framework into action | This document follows the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s journey of race equity and inclusion. It contains their framework of implementation … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture | This guide helps define race equity gaps in organizations as well as how to begin the process of building a … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Communities Creating Racial Equity: Ripple Effects of Dialogues to Change | This document explores five case studies from New Mexico, Virginia, Kentucky, and New York and the role dialogue plays in … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2018 |
| America Needs All of Us | This tool provides practical messaging tools and strategies that address people’s fears, anxieties, and prejudices head on. In that way, … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Five Guiding Principles for Integrating Racial and Ethnic Equity in Research | This article summarizes five guiding principles for integrating racial and ethnic equity in research, including: examining backgrounds and biases, committing … | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary | 2019 |
| How to Embed a Racial and Ethnic Equity Perspective in Research: Practical Guidance for the Research Process | For child and youth research to inform and improve policies, programs, and public opinion, it must identify, explore, and explain … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Guide to Results-Based Planning and Facilitation: Achieving Results and Equity for Vulnerable Children and Youth | This guide explains how to use a proven strategic planning discipline -Results-Based Accountability (RBA) – to achieve population level results, … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Foster Care: HHS Needs to Improve the Consistency and Timeliness of Assistance to Tribes | This report examines (1) obstacles facing tribes interested in directly operating a Title IV-E program and (2) the assistance HHS … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Institutional Racism and the Social Work Profession: A Call to Action | This document provides definitions of institutional/structural racism, clarifies how it is relevant to the social work profession, and details how … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2007 |
| Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work Profession to Action Brief | This brief highlights the strategic actions and targeted recommendations developed during the symposium, Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work … | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work Profession to Action | This report includes summaries of all of the presentations, recommendations, and biographies of the speakers at the symposium, Achieving Racial … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Social Workers Moving Beyond Neutrality: Confronting Racial Injustice Conference | This four part video features a day-long conference that focuses on racial disparities in education and the criminal justice system, … | Advancing Racial Equity | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Achieving Racial Equity: Child Welfare Policy Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Children of Color | This report begins by providing contextual information about the disparities often experienced by children and families of color, followed by … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2019 |
| Racial Justice – The Connecticut Journey: A Conversation about the Work | This PowerPoint presentation introduces Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families Statewide Racial Justice Workgroup (SRJW) Leadership and their efforts to … | Advancing Racial Equity | Webinar/Presentation | 2016 |
| Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization Assessment | This assessment tool supports family-focused organizations to: (1) plan for and incorporate culturally and linguistically competent policies, structures, and practices … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| Assessing Organizational Racism | This organizational assessment offers a sampling of questions designed to help predominately white organizations and multi-racial organizations of white people … | Advancing Racial Equity | Overview/Summary, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2001 |
| Logic Model Template | This document is a sample logic model worksheet for racial equity and particular issues. | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book: For Social Change Groups | This resource book is a compilation of materials designed to supplement a Dismantling Racism workshop, which supports organizations to build … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2003 |
| Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive & Antiracist Organization | This tool offers resources that support a transformational process to become a more inclusive antiracist and multiracial organization. | Advancing Racial Equity | Reference/Resource List, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2005 |
| 3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit | This paper introduces three simple tools for starting racial equity work off right within your organization or others. | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2002 |
| Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion within Your Organization | This guide provides a clear framework to incorporate race equity and inclusion at every stage of work by foundations or … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Structural Racism Theory of Change Framework | This presentation by the Center for the Study of Social Policy explains a step-by-step backward mapping process to help identify … | Advancing Racial Equity | Webinar/Presentation | 2010 |
| Tools for Thought: Using Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Effective Policymaking | This study explores assessment tools that measure the impact of proposed legislation on populations of color and are effective in … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Mind the Gap #9: Achieving Racial Equity through Workforce & Organizational Change | This thought-provoking, dynamic webinar helps participants understand and apply a racial equity lens to change efforts in child welfare. | Advancing Racial Equity | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2016 |
| Racial Equity Training: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that examines participant knowledge and attitudes about race, engagement in racial equity work, and organizational … | Advancing Racial Equity | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2015 |
| Starting with the Numbers: The importance of data collection & analysis in system efforts to eliminate racial/ethnic disparities | This video discusses the work of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families Statewide Racial Justice Workgroup (SRJW) to develop and … | Advancing Racial Equity | Webinar/Presentation | 2016 |
| Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas into Action | This guide provides information on six strategies for advancing racial equity and government transformation and shares the stories and lessons … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2015 |
| Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual | This manual provides guidance for local governments to develop their own Racial Equity Action Plans after a period of research … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity | This racial equity tool is designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs and … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Operationalizing Equity | This report examines the challenges and breakthroughs experienced by Annie E. Casey Foundation to promote race equity and inclusion to … | Advancing Racial Equity | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| Promoting Racial Equity Through Workforce and Organizational Actions Infographic | This infographic visually describes what racial equity is in child welfare, why we need to take action, and provides suggestions … | Advancing Racial Equity | 1-Page-Summary, Infographic, NCWWI-Product | 2018 |
| Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization | This is a chart that describes the six phases of becoming an anti racist multicultural organization. | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Ten Lessons for Taking Leadership on Racial Equity | This document distills ten lessons for how to take leadership on the difficult topic of race in America and is … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2013 |
| Racial Equity Tools Glossary | This list defines commonly used terms in order to enhance the quality of dialogue and discourse on race in America … | Advancing Racial Equity | Reference/Resource List | 2013 |
| Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation: A guide for public dialogue and problem solving | This guide outlines how to facilitate meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and … | Advancing Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
