C5 – Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Implementation of Evidence-Based Models for Child Welfare Preventive Populations    

This session will focus on the efforts of The Children’s Village to incorporate a racial equity lens into their work with families. The presentation will provide historical data that points to the disproportionality of services delivery in communities of color and the resulting outcomes. In addition, policies impacting families involved in child welfare will be discussed and presenters will share strategies to engage in the implementation of services that focuses on both the research of racial oppression on families as well as on the empirical data of the models. The session will also describe how The Children’s Village and their consultant developed an agency-wide training aimed at educating all staff on the history of family.

Presenter: Daphne Torres-Douglas, The Children's Village, Dobbs Ferry, NY