NCWWI Products
NCWWI continually develops a range of products related to workforce development and leadership. These resouces are listed below in alphabetical order and are also located throughout the resource library.
NCWWI Products
Cultural Responsiveness & Disproportionality
Additional Keywords: immigration, immigrants, cultural competence, Indian child welfare, linguistic competence, tribal child welfare, disparity, (Resources on Diversity and Inclusivity can be found in the “Organizational Environment” category)
Microaggressions in the Child Welfare Workplace: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This resource summarizes the qualitative responses on the topic of microaggressions in the workplace from 30 social workers who identified…
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Microaggressions (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes an article that evaluates microaggressions and proposes possible approaches to handling situations in which microaggressions occur. The…
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Dismantling Racial Inequity #5: Strengthening Our Efforts Through Partnerships with Academia
This fifth session of "Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change" webinar series will highlight New York State’s Office…
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Race Equity Crosswalk Tool
This tool guides teams through questions designed to counteract blind spots that may be keeping leaders from truly seeing the…
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Racial Equity: Getting to Results
This tool highlights how to use a root cause analysis to dig deeply into the sources of racially inequitable outcomes,…
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Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
This paper examines the racial leadership gap in the nonprofit sector, provides ways to change organizational and systemic barriers, and…
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Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
This report measures how children are progressing on key milestones by race and ethnicity at the national and state levels;…
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Promoting Child and Family Well Being through Civil Rights Compliance
This webinar focuses on Federal civil rights laws that protect children and families from discrimination in the child welfare system…
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Promoting Child and Family Well-Being Through Civil Rights Compliance
This presentation focuses on Federal civil rights laws that protect children and families from discrimination in the child welfare system…
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Pathways to Tribal Title IV-E: Tribal Title IV-E Options
This document assists tribes in determining if applying for direct Title IV-E funding or pursuing a Tribal-State Agreement might be…
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Identifying Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services: A Conceptual Framework and Literature Review
This report helps the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) build the base of knowledge necessary to reliably identify and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech
This tool describes strategic communication to prevent dangerous speech from facilitating group-targeted violence. (2016)
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Components for Developing Culturally Responsive Seven Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations
This guide lists seven components that serve as the foundation to creating culturally responsive programs. (2017)
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Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations: A Resource Guide for Community-Based Organizations
This resource guide identifies easily accessible resources on cultural competency that CBOs can use to become more responsive to the…
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Building a Culturally Responsive Workforce: The Texas Model for Undoing Disproportionality & Disparities in Child Welfare (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that highlights a collection of strategies for building a culturally responsive workforce based upon…
Biases: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document describes the biases that can create barriers to organizational change and gives pointed recommendations for confronting and changing…
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Dismantling Racial Inequity #3: A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Outcomes for Black Girls in Child Welfare
This third session of "Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change" webinar series will highlight how Allegheny County Department…
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Dismantling Racial Inequity #4: Slow and Steady Wins the RACE of Child Welfare Equity
This fourth session of "Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change" webinar series will highlight how Connecticut Department of…
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The Implicit Association Test
This assessment measures unconscious associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics.
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Understanding the Impact of Implicit Bias
This presentation explores the impact of implicit bias on organizational functioning, training design and delivery, and the broader organizational culture…
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Partnering with Latino and Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for Child Welfare Professionals
This guide shares background information, resources, and suggestions to help you achieve safety, permanence, and well-being for Latino and immigrant…
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Operationalizing Equity
This report examines the challenges and breakthroughs experienced by Annie E. Casey Foundation to promote race equity and inclusion to…
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Standards and Indicators for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice
This document provides guidance on the implementation and realization of culturally competent practice. (2015)
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Dismantling Racial Inequity #2: Community Collaboration and Grassroots Effort
This webinar is the second session of "Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change" webinar series and highlights the…
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Diversity in Leadership: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper shares findings from two studies that examined the influence of racial similarity/dissimilarity on supervisor and subordinate relationships and…
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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…
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Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
This is a chart that describes the six phases of becoming an anti racist multicultural organization. (2013)
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Activity to Explore the Impact of Skin Color
This documents guides an activity that illustrates the different experiences participants may have based on the color of their skin…
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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…
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Evaluation Terms for Racial Equity
This webpage provides tip sheets for key evaluation terminology and concepts that are helpful to know when describing an evaluation,…
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Child Abuse Characteristics and Patterns among Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American Families
This curriculum strives to meet the core competencies as outlined by the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC), to provide…
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The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations
This document offers guidelines that help create the conditions for safe exploration and learning for all throughcourageous conversations about race.…
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Speed Meeting Activity for Communities Addressing Racism
This activity is for programs addressing racism and racial equity and can be used whenever people don't know each other…
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Racial Equity Tools Glossary
This list defines commonly used terms in order to enhance the quality of dialogue and discourse on race in America…
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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…
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Addressing Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare System
This presentation outlines disparities throughout the process (i.e, referral & investigation, substantiation, removal & out-of-home placement), impact of implicit bias,…
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Dismantling Racial Inequity #1: Using an Institutional Analysis to Identify Core Issues and Spur Change
This webinar is the first session of "Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change" webinar series and shares key…
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Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) Tribal Equity toolkit
This toolkit identifies areas in which existing tribal laws may discriminate against Two Spirit/LGBT individuals and gives tribal legislators a…
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Confronting Racial Bias at Work: Challenges and Solutions for 21st Century Employment Discrimination
This report reviews the systemic barriers impacting workers of color drawing upon academic research, interviews with discrimination lawyers and EEOC…
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White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
This document lists personal examples of unearned advantage and encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages…
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Understanding Structural Racism Activity
This activity helps participants delve deeper in analyzing racism and start to learn how to use a structural racism lens.…
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The Role of Assessment in Achieving Cultural Competence
This document provides an overview on self-assessment, the essential elements in achieving cultural competence, and the contributions of National Center…
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Step-Forward-Step-Back-Organizational Identity Activity
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to…
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Cultural & 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…
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Assessing Organizational Racism
This organizational assessment offers a sampling of questions designed to help predominately white organizations and multi-racial organizations of white people…
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NAPCWA Disproportionate Representation: Agency Diagnostic
This tool helps agencies examine disproportionality within their jurisdiction, identify gaps in the agency, target areas for improvements and highlight…
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Logic Model Template
This document is a sample logic model worksheet for racial equity and particular issues. (2010)
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Knowing Who You Are: Helping Youth in Care Develop Their Racial and Ethnic Identity - Facilitator Guide
This guide contains information about the role of the facilitator, things to think about before viewing the video, and group…
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Knowing Who You Are: Helping Youth in Care Develop Their Racial and Ethnic Identity - Viewer Guide
This guide contains definitions and descriptions related to racial and ethnic identity, background information about the Knowing Who You Are…
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Knowing Who You Are: Helping Youth in Care Develop Their Racial and Ethnic Identity
This video provides the catalyst for inspiring courageous conversations and ultimately helping youth in care develop a healthy perspective and…
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Knowing Who You Are
This training designed to raise awareness about the importance developing a healthy sense of racial and ethnic identity (REI). It…
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Child Welfare Practice in a Multicultural Environment: A Core Class for New Child Welfare Workers
This presentation facilitates self-reflection and openness to cultural differences on the part of child welfare workers and to assist the…
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Tasks of the Privileged and Subjugated
This model offers guidelines for effectively discussing racism or other forms of social oppression in a mixed group.
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Facilitators’ Racial Equity Checklist
This document helps guides facilitators debrief dialogue sessions and make sure a group is working well together. (2010)
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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…
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Courageous Conversations about Race
This webinar presentation describes four steps: notice, engage, understand, and empathize of having courageous conversations about race. (2013)
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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. (2005)
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Racial Equity Child Welfare Data Analysis Tool State of The Science: Implicit Bias Review
This publication highlights new academic literature through the lenses of five main domain areas: criminal justice, health and health care,…
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Working with Clients who are Immigrants a Guide for Connecticut DCF' Social Workers
This guide was designed for social workers in Connecticut but serves as an example that other states may wish to…
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Understanding and Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in the Front End of the Child Welfare System
This executive summary examines the nature of disproportionality in the frontend of the child welfare system and the interventions designed…
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Information Packet Cultural Sensitivity with Immigrant Families and Their Children
This document provides basic information on incorporating cultural sensitivity in interventions with immigrant families and children. (2003)
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Immigration and Language Guidelines for Child Welfare Staff, 2nd edition
This pamphlet provides an overview of immigration and language issues for the purpose of maximizing child welfare services to meet…
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Culturally Competent Practice with Latino Children and Families-Instructor Manual
This training curriculum is designed to train child protection staff on culturally competent practice with Latino children and families by…
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Cultural Resources for Practitioners
This document provides child welfare practitioners a list of resources and learning opportunities that focus on cultural issues and specific…
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Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare
This issue brief explores the prevalence of racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system and describes strategies that…
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Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations: A Resource Guide for Community-Based Organizations
This guide identifies easily accessible resources on cultural competency that community-based service organizations can use to become more responsive to…
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Racial Equity Impact Assessment
This assessment is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed…
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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within the Child Welfare System
This brief explains why equal opportunity is important in the U.S. child welfare system, shows the consequences of unintended actions…
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3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit
This paper introduces three simple tools for starting racial equity work off right. (2006)
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Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment
This tool contains a questionnaire and next steps that help raise organizational awareness, start focused conversations, contribute to the development…
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The Institutional Analysis: Uncovering Pathways to Improving Public Systems & Interventions for Children and Families
This paper describes an approach, known as an Institutional Analysis (IA), is to identify organizational structures such as policies, administrative…
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Fresno County Department of Social Services: Confronting Racial Inequities and Disproportionality to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children & Families
This case study details Fresno County’s efforts to address racial inequities and improve outcomes for all children and youth involved…
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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…
Constructing a Racial Equity Theory of Change: A Practical Guide for Designing Strategies to Close Chronic Racial Outcome Gaps
This publication represents an effort to apply a more race-conscious approach to community building and social justice work and the…
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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…
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Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Staff Core Competencies for Working to Achieve Racial Equity
This document outlines the attitudes, skills and knowledge to help the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) staff…
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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…
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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. (2016)
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Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children Final Report and Recommendations (MN)
This report advise the governor and legislature on system and practice improvements in the child protection system at all levels…
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Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare
This report shares ten jurisdictions’ approaches to reducing racial disproportionality and disparities in their child welfare services in order to…
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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…
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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…
Culture Card: A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness
This guide provides basic information to enhance cultural competence while providing services in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Keywords: Native…
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The Wakanheza Project™ Creating Welcoming Environments
This document provides principles and strategies that prevent or de-escalate stressful situations in public to create more welcoming environments for…
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The Challenge of Sustaining Cultural and Linguistic Competence
This paper provides effective and creative strategies for sustaining cultural and linguistic competence efforts and examples of inclusive strategic planning…
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Resources for Child Welfare Professionals Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds
This guide provides information and resources to assist child welfare workers in providing culturally responsive, appropriate services to meet the…
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Research-Practice Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health
This report suggest that research-practice-policy partnerships may help narrow the gap between the development of evidence-based services for young people…
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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…
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Best Practices Guide for Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds in Child Welfare
This guide is an overview of selected topics that are relevant to providing culturally responsive services to families with refugee…
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Cultural Openness (3 minute microlearning)
An important dimension of cultural humility is to maintain an openness to the cultural differences. This short 3 minute module…
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Cultural Identity and Situational Factors (7 minute microlearning)
Knowing ourselves helps us to recognize our personal biases and stereotypes and to see the world from the perspective of…
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Cultural Humility
This 30-minute documentary explains what cultural humility is and why we need it, and describes a set of principles that…
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Indian Child Welfare Resources from the National Conference of State Legislatures
This webpage provides resources about Indian Child Welfare Act, including background, basic provisions, federal guidance and courts, and general information…
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth in the Child Welfare System
This training course assists child welfare professionals in being aware of the needs of youth who identify as LGBTQ in…
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Research Is Action: Disparity, Poverty, and the Need for New Knowledge
This report explores the issue of disparity in relation to child poverty and maltreatment, and the reasons for investing more…
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It’s Time to Talk: how to start conversations about racial inequities
This report tells how KIDS COUNT advocates in Nebraska, Wisconsin and Washington used solid data, leadership and citizen engagement to…
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Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare, Education and Mental Health Systems
This paper investigates the impact of racial bias on three public institutions: the child welfare, education, and mental health systems.…
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By The Numbers: Using Disaggregated Data to Inform Policies, Practices and Decision-making
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Cultural Responsiveness: NCWWI 1-page Summary
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