Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores the problem of racial disproportionality and disparity in child welfare. The course describes the multiple factors that contribute to racial disproportionality and disparity, including disproportionate and disparate needs of children of diverse backgrounds, individual discrimination and racial bias, child welfare system factors, geography, policy, and structural racism. Multiple strategies are given to address racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
Publisher: Children’s Bureau
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring racial disproportionality and disparity in child welfare
Learning Objectives: Identify contributing factors to racial disproportionality and disparity in child welfare. Identify systemwide strategies to address racial disproportionality and disparity. Identify casework strategies to address racial disproportionality and disparity.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 cultural competence continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.