Click here to download a copy of BCDI's Child Welfare Priorities.
In the 4th quarter of 2010, BCDI-Seattle's Child Welfare Committee(Germaine Covington, Chair) co-sponsored a community forum on the number of children in the 98118 zip code who ensnared inthe child welfare system. Click here to download a copy of an article that appeared in the Beacon Hill News on January 5, 2011. The articles descibes the issue in 98118 and contains comments by the BCDI-Seattle Child Welfare Chair.
BCDI-Seattle is a member of the King County Coalition on Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System. The Coalition has created a video on disproportionality in the child welfare system. To access the video, control+click on http://catalystforkids.org/about.html
That will bring you to the page about Catalyst for Kids. Scroll down to the
middle of the page and click on
latest video on disproportionality.
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BCDI-Seattle has a 25 year history of conducting research projects and advocating for African American children and families that are ensnared in the child welfare system. On this page, you will find links to following documents that describe past and current efforts to eradicate the disproportionate involvement of African American children and families in the child welfare system.
Download this document to review a timeline of BCDI-Seattle activities
Download "Bridges to Engagement" - report on C2P2 (model for eliminating disproportionality for African American children referred for neglect to the public child welfare system in King County Washington)
Download BCDI-Seatte's groundbreaking 1990 report on the condition of African American children in the public child welfare system in King County Washington - "Who Will Care When Parent's Can't?"
BCDI-Seattle is a member of the King County Coalition on Disproportionality. Click here to download the Coalition's November 2004 report on "Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System in King County, Washington."
Click here for an Executve Summary of the above report.
For a national study and recommendations, download the July 2007 GAO Report on African American children in Foster Care.
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In the summer of 2001; BCDI-Seattle partnered, on an application to the Federal Childrens' Bureau, with UW School of Social Work's Northwest Institute for Children and Families on an application to be selected as the Quality Improvement Center (QIC) on Frontline Child Protective Services in the Northwest (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho). This research grant project utimately resulted in a model program that eliminated disproportionality for African American children, referred for neglect, to the public child welfare system in King County Washington - Culturally Competent Professional Practice [C2P2].
The report for this model is called "Bridges to Engagement", and is available by clicking here.
BCDI-Seattle's report on the Frontline Connections research project is available here.
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