Mind the Gap #9: Achieving Racial Equity through Workforce & Organizational Change
National Webinar (Featuring CSSP): December 1, 2016
Learning Exchange (Featuring Ramsey County MN): December 7, 2016
Tackling racial inequities head on can be challenging, but doing so is critical to building anti-racist organizations, supporting a diverse workforce, and improving the outcomes of children, youth and families served by our nation’s child welfare systems.
We hope you can join us for this thought-provoking, dynamic webinar session that will help you and your colleagues understand and apply a racial equity lens to your change efforts in child welfare. Leaders from the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) will discuss their work building an anti-racist organization as well as supporting child welfare agencies towards reducing racial inequities to become more just, fair and reflective of the communities they serve. Presenters will share the following:
- The levels and types of racial inequity, including systemic oppression, institutional racism and implicit bias, and how they impact workforce and organizational functioning;
- Core staff competencies, training and professional development to support racial equity in child welfare;
- Analytical and action frameworks for working to achieve racial equity, including organizational assessment and intervention strategies.
Presenters will highlight how these components have been operationalized at CSSP and in select child welfare agencies, as well as core implementation drivers and relevant tips, tools and lessons learned to help others engage in and advance anti-racist change within their unit, office, division or agency as a whole.
Presenters include Juanita Gallion and Tashira Halyard. For more information, please explore our Presenter Bios.
Recordings:
- Webinar Recording
- Learning Exchange Recording
- Webinar MP3 (audio only)
- Learning Exchange MP3 (audio only)
Handouts and Resources:
December 1st Webinar with Center for the Study of Social Policy:
- PowerPoint Slides
- Achieving Racial Equity: Child Welfare Policy Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Children of Color
- Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare
- Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Website
- CSSP Racial Equity Agenda
- CSSP Staff Core Competencies for Working to Achieve Racial Equity
- Race Equity Impact Assessment Tool
- Strategies to Reduce Racially Disparate Outcomes in Child Welfare
December 7th Learning Exchange with Ramsey County, MN:
Anti-Racism Training Continuum 2016
Anti-Racism Competencies for Ramsey County Human Services
Ramsey County Anti-Racism Website
Ramsey County Anti-Racism Training and Leadership Team Resources
Webinar Sessions:
- Introducing the Workforce Development Framework
- Simulation Labs for Child Welfare Education and Training
- Children’s Corps: A Dynamic Approach to Child Welfare Worker Recruitment, Screening and Selection
- Child Welfare Training Competencies in Action: The Ohio Experience
- Transforming Child Welfare Decision-making through Modern Technology & Data Analytics
- Becoming a Trauma-informed Child Welfare Agency: The Waupaca County Journey
- Real World Barriers & Strategies for Evidence-based Practice Implementation
- Prioritizing Supervision: Comprehensive Supervisory Development in Indiana
- Achieving Racial Equity through Workforce & Organizational Change
- Peer Mentoring, Crisis Response & Resilience-building: NJ DCF’s Worker2Worker Program