Disproportionality In The Child Welfare System Fairfax Casa Speaker: brett drake, ph.d. professor of data science for the social good in practiceracial ethnic disproportionality in child protective services (cps)has r. The children and family research center (cfrc) at the school of social work, university of illinois urbana champaign, has taken a significant step in assessing this issue by releasing its latest report, which examines the extent of disproportionality among children in several racial and ethnic groups in the illinois child welfare system over a.
Ccwear Publications Western Kentucky University Racial disproportionality and racial disparity. racial disproportionality refers to the over or under representation of a racial group compared to their percentage in a base population. the base population that is most often used when measuring disproportionality is the percentage of children in that racial group in the total child population. Illinois is one of the few states that have implemented ongoing monitoring of racial and ethnic disproportionality within the child welfare system. beginning in the late 1990s, illinois’s department of children and family services (dcfs) collaborated with state universities to understand the causes of this ongoing issue. additionally, a series of committees and legislative policies have kept. Abstract. using a national sample of 1,461 child protective services (cps) investigations in the united states, we examine differences between black and white families with regard to caseworker ratings of risk and harm to the child, as well as the probability that a case is substantiated for maltreatment. we employ difference in difference. In this report, it is represented by a racial disproportionality index (rdi), in which the percentage of children in a racial or ethnic group involved in some part of the child welfare system is divided by the percentage of children in a relevant base population. there are two commonly used methods for calculating rdi; each uses a different.
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