Re: Overrepresentation of African American children

[bill higgins <bill_higginsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mario

Could you clarify - what exactly are "the special
issues confronting biracial children" in the child
welfare system?

Bill


--- "Mario L. Marberry" <marberry@ku.edu> wrote:
> I've been reading the recent ongoing discussion on
> the board regarding the 
> overrepresentation of African American children in
> the child welfare system 
> with some excitement because that is definitely an
> area of interest of mine.
> I 
> think we all acknowledge, or at least some of us do,
> that minorities are 
> overrepresented in the country's child welfare
> system in proportion to their
> 
> percentage of the population, but I don't think we
> make the next step which
> is 
> asking why. We also don't ask the question of what
> we can do to reverse this
> 
> situation.
> 
> I'm curious if anyone on the list is aware of any
> state that is making a 
> concerted effort to address overrepresentation of
> minorities in the child 
> welfare system. What success they have had, what is
> it that they are
> actually 
> doing, and also, a related topic, how do child
> welfare agencies deal with
> the 
> special issues confronting Biracial children in the
> child welfare system?
> The 
> state that I'm most familiar with-Missouri, has
> always just considered 
> Biracial children as African American children. How
> are other states
> tackling 
> this issue?
> 
>  
> Mario L. Marberry, MSW, LCSW
> Child Welfare Fellow
> School of Social Welfare
> University of Kansas
> email: marberry@ku.edu
>  
> If I'm the descendant of kings and queens, doesn't
> that make me royalty?


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