RE: Research on services to reduce ethnic/racial disproportionality in the child welfare system

Hi Kathy -

The Children's Bureau funded three Quality Improvement Centers (QICs) on CPS to promote knowledge development with the overarching goal of improving child welfare services. The QICs represent an experiment by the Children's Bureau to examine the feasibility and benefits of increasing regional involvement in designing and managing research and demonstration efforts. One of QICs that was funded is located at the University of Washington, Northwest Institute for Children and Families and their Frontline Connections QIC is focused on evaluating promising culturally-appropriate interventions designed to increase the capacity of the system to engage parents, kin, and communities of Native American or African American families involved with CPS due to child neglect. They are now starting the fourth year of a five-year project and have a great deal of lessons learned from the projects.

The Project Manager is:

Indra Trujillo

206-696-3823

indra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The website is: http://depts.washington.edu/nwicf/Training_and_Systems/fl_frontline.html

Also, the other CPS QICs are:

Southern Regional Quality Improvement Center at the University of Kentucky. This QIC focuses on enhancing the quality of CPS frontline supervision.

http://www.uky.edu/SocialWork/trc/indexqic.html

Rocky Mountain Quality Improvement Center at the American Humane. This QIC focused on families impacted by child maltreatment and substance abuse.

http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pc_best_practice_rmqic_homepage&JServSessionIdr008=pggw7km3x1.app26a

Hope this is helpful!

Melissa

Melissa Lim Brodowski, MSW/MPH

Office on Child Abuse and Neglect

Children's Bureau, ACYF, ACF, DHHS

330 C Street SW, Room 2417

Washington, DC 20447

phone: 202-205-2629

fax: 202-205-8221

email: mbrodowski@xxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Lemon [mailto:lemon777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:53 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Research on services to reduce ethnic/racial disproportionality in the child welfare system

Hello,

I am a doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, School of Social Welfare and I am working with the Bay Area Social Services Consortium on a systematic research review of interventions that may help to reduce ethnic/racial disproportionality in the child welfare system--especially at the front-end of the system--including screening, investigation, out-of-home placement, as well as prevention of child maltreatment and entry into the system.

Can anyone direct me to any unpublished studies on this topic?

Thank you,

Kathy Lemon