Re: over-representation of African American families in thechild welfare system

["Anna Hagemeister" <AHAGEMEI@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Department of Human Services in Minnesota has been looking into this issue. In addition, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the School of Social Work, U of Minnesota, St. Paul held a conference on this about 2 years ago. Both have web-sites and reports about what they're doing.
Anna 
Annelies Hagemeister, PhD,LGSW
Instructor/Project Coordinator
School of Social Work
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN 55108

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In Cleveland we are renewing efforts to address the over-representation
of African American children in foster care.  In Cuyahoga County, the
rate of Caucasian children placed in foster care is 3 per 1,000 children
while the rate for African American children is 13 per 1,000.  While I
know the difference in these rates is often significant in many parts of
the United States, there is some feeling here that this difference is
unusually large, even for an urban child welfare system.  I would
appreciate any information on rates in other U.S. cities/urban counties.

Thanks, 

David Crampton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH  44106-7164
216-368-6680