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The child welfare system is overloaded with racial disparities that impact Black families, experts say.
African-American children are more likely than white children to be in persistent poverty due to multiple generations of discrimination. [1] When accounting for differences in family structure and income levels, black children still persist in higher poverty rates which is evidence that child poverty is driven by racism. [6]
Racial trauma can also be caused by both experiences of overt racism and covert racism. Overt racism describes instances of racism that occur on a person-to-person basis; it is the form of racism that people are more used to labeling as “racist” (e.g., one person yells racial slurs at another person).
In response to the death of Elisa Izquierdo, the then-Mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, instigated an urgent review of the city's child welfare system. [61] This review inspired the creation of the Administration for Children's Services — an agency solely devoted to the issue of child welfare in New York. [6] [n 13]
Only by targeting support before child welfare gets involved can we truly strengthen families and protect children, especially children of incarcerated mothers.
A pilot project aimed at lowering the rate of medical professionals who overreport Black, Latino and Indigenous families to the child welfare system is launching in Michigan, the American Bar ...
CASA are generally appointed at the first hearing for the welfare of a child. [9] In some states, a child will be assigned a lawyer as guardian ad litem (GAL) to represent the child in court. The GAL can double as a CASA, and in some situations, a child will be assigned both a CASA and a GAL. [1]
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