Dr. Lipscomb will be focusing on ways to empower social workers, clinicians, and other child welfare providers to be equity-minded, innovative, anti-oppressive, and antiracist across service delivery sectors. In addition, he will provide tips on creating culturally responsive individual and collective accountability practices to prevent racial disparities and disportionality in the future.

A thorough exploration of data can reveal the specific ways that children of color are reported to, enter, and exit the child welfare system. Cont...

How a strategic multi-systems approach may have likely influenced the significant decline in foster care entry rates for children of color in Sacramento County. Cont...

Members of the Cultural Responsiveness Statewide Collaborative will answer questions about the Culturally Responsive Practice Behaviors Tool they created to enhance the skills of leaders, facilitators, coaches, and trainers in child welfare agencies. This tool defines behaviors and skills that demonstrate culturally responsive practice. The panelists will discuss what the tool is and how they developed it. They will also describe how it is used in general and to promote prevention particularly.

As the child welfare field gradually moves to a transformed future with a stronger emphasis on prevention and community response, we want to highlight families who are reunifying after being involved in foster care and juvenile court oversight is dismissed. Cont...