Re: race matching and child welfare

["keheslin" <keheslin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennette -- Sounds like a great book!  I work in health care, not child welfare, so I have a couple of questions:

In what ways do working decision-making have racial implications?

"each substantiated children of opposite race at slightly lower rates than children within their own race."  
 -- Lower rates of what?

If I can find the time, I'll read your book.  Congratulations, by the way.

Also, you might be interested in Lisa Cooper's work on MD/patient racial concordance in general medical care, and Robert Rosenheck's work on racial matching of case managers and homeless adults.

Kevin


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Dderezotes@aol.com
Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu
Date:  Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:47:41 -0500

>Bill, there is a book currently in press with the Child Welfare League of America, entitled, Race Matters in Child Welfare: The overrepresentation of African American Children in the Child Welfare System, edited by Derezotes, Poertner and Testa. There are several studies in the book that show that worker decision-making does have racial implications, however, the findings do not show that it is clearly better to have same race workers with families. One example is in substantiations: when looking at decision-making between African American and Caucasian workers doing investigations, each substantiated children of opposite race at slightly lower rates than children within their own race. Dennette Derezotes
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>> We are running a training for new workers.  Someone
>> asked about matching the race of the child with the
>> race of the worker.  Is there any research on this
>> topic?  Does it seem to make a difference?  
>> 
>> Bill Higgins
>> 
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>Dennette Derezotes
>Children and Family Research Center
>School of Social Work
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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