Addressing Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare (2 Credit Hours)

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1: Certain racial and ethnic groups are overrepresented in the child welfare system in ______________.

a limited number of geographic regions of the United States.
virtually every locality.

2: In 2008, African-American children constituted what percentage of the total child population and what percentage of the children in foster care?

1% and 2%
14% and 31%
4% and 1%
22% and 20%

3: In 2008, White, non-Hispanic children constituted what percentage of the total child population and what percentage of the children in foster care?

1% and 2%
14% and 31%
56% and 40%
22% and 20%

4: The disproportional number of certain racial and ethnic groups in foster care is generally not an indicator of the disparate outcomes, services, and treatments that children and families of color experience while interacting with the child welfare system.

True
False

5: In FY 2003, the average stay in foster care for White children was ___ while the average length of stay for African-American children was ____.

24 months and 40 months.
12 months and 24 months.
40 months and 24 months.
36 months and 48 months.

6: At least 24 states have reported that language differences are a barrier to

services
case planning
investigations
training
all of these.

7: Most states are able to recruit and retain resource parents who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the foster care population in that state.

True
False

8: Programs focused on which of the following risk factors may have preventive effects on the incidence of child abuse and neglect?

Poverty reduction
Crime rate reduction
Housing services
Employment Services
All of these

9: Studies show that African-American families are equally likely to be reported to child welfare agencies for suspicion of child maltreatment.

True
False

10: Mandated reporters sometimes have difficulty distinguishing neglect from which of the following factors:

cultural differences
the effects of poverty
both of these.

11: What is one factor that causes government case workers who work for agencies that provide concrete services to have a higher rate of referrals to child welfare agencies for minority families?

inflexible rules requiring reporting of families seeking certain kinds of services
disproportional rates of poverty among these families that lead to higher visibility to employees of government agencies
the inability to distinguish cultural differences from abuse or neglect

12: After a referral to a child welfare agency, the cases of minority families are ______ likely to be substantiated at investigation.

less
equally
more

13: After maltreatment has been substantiated, White families are more likely to:

receive services that allow the children to remain in the home.
have their children placed in out-of home care.

14: After maltreatment has been substantiated, families of color are more likely to:

receive services that allow the children to remain in the home.
have their children placed in out-of-home care.

15: What characterizes a Differential Response Approach?

In this approach, child welfare agencies provide support and information to help the extended family form a plan to ensure the health and safety of the child.
When parents voluntarily place their children with a family member without any formal involvement from a child welfare agency.
This approach is used when abuse and neglect cannot be substantiated, when there is a determination of low risk or when a family might not otherwise qualify for services. It allows caseworkers more options for family involvement in case planning and serv

16: What characterizes an Informal Kinship Care Approach?

When parents voluntarily place their children with a family member without any formal involvement from a child welfare agency.
In this approach, child welfare agencies provide support and information to help the extended family form a plan to ensure the health and safety of the child.
This approach is used when abuse and neglect cannot be substantiated, when there is a determination of low risk or when a family might not otherwise qualify for services. It allows caseworkers more options for family involvement in case planning and serv

17: What characterizes a Family Group Decision-Making Approach?

This approach is used when abuse and neglect cannot be substantiated, when there is a determination of low risk or when a family might not otherwise qualify for services. It allows caseworkers more options for family involvement in case planning and serv
When parents voluntarily place their children with a family member without any formal involvement from a child welfare agency.
In this approach, child welfare agencies provide support and information to help the extended family form a plan to ensure the health and safety of the child.

18: What was the primary method adopted by the Alternative Response project in Franklin Ohio?

Home visit services were provided weekly and combined with other services including community outreach, parent education, support groups and other concrete services with an emphasis on a culturally competent, strengths-based approach.
The agency selected nine zip codes that were home to African-American populations and had high numbers of referrals and child removals. In these neighborhoods, services were front-loaded so that families could access services before children were at risk.
Caseworkers were provided with a battery of instruments for structured decision making that helped rate the risk for recurrence of maltreatment in families. Caseworkers were asked to use these tools to complete assessments based on vignettes in which the

19: White children in the foster care system are _____ likely to be reunited with their families than African-American and Native American children.

more
equally
less

20: In the discussion of family reunification, which of the following is not described as a service that supports family reunification?

family strengthening
parent education
structured decision making tools for caseworkers to reduce bias when assessing risk
substance abuse supports for parents
concrete supports such as housing and transportation

21: What does the term 'fictive kin' mean?

Resource parents who are designated as stand-in families for children in the child welfare system.
Adults who are not related 'by blood' but who have another relationship to the child such as the extended family or the Tribe.
Adults from the extended family such as aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

22: Some child welfare agencies or other agencies that place children in foster or permanent homes may use screening processes for prospective resource families that effectively screen out many minority families.

True
False

23: Which of the following is not described as a method to help agencies recruit resource families who reflect the ethnic and racial makeup of the children and families they serve?

Recruiting from social and civic organizations.
Establishing an adoption office within a minority community
Mentoring programs to provide prospective foster and adoptive families with information and role models they need to make decisions.
All of these are described as methods for recruiting resource families.

24: What is customary adoption?

A program that has been established in a number of States to address the problem of foster parents who need support in order to become permanent guardians.
Placement of children informally with friends or family without the involvement of child welfare agencies.
A term for the Native American custom of adoption within a Tribe; parental rights are not terminated and the child grows up knowing his or her biological parents and other family members.

25: What percentage of social workers serving children and adolescents are non-Hispanic White?

5%
6%
54%
86%

26: The AdoptUSKids program at the Children's Health Bureau at HHS has

developed programs to provide and enhance leadership skills among 20 potential and emerging minority leaders from the 20 states that have the largest number of children of color awaiting adoption and disproportionately represented in the child welfare sys
provided training and technical assistance in cultural competence and 'diligent recruitment' practices for agencies and States that want to recruit resource families who reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of children in foster care.
collected ideas and data on addressing racial disproportionality in child welfare by having teams from around the country brainstorm ideas, field testing these ideas, and then having other teams throughout the country use them in their practice.
brought together judicial officers and other experts to set a national agenda for court-based training, research, and reform initiatives to reduce the disproportionate representation of children of color in dependency court systems.

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