IN THIS ISSUE:
From the Editor: ‘Why are All the Kids Black and All the Staff White?’: Anti-racism Work in Child Welfare
Introduction: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches
Approaches from Related Fields to Integrate Anti-racist Initiatives into Child Welfare
Anita P. Barbee, Andrew M. Winters and Emma M. Sterrett-Hong
Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare: A Problem With ‘Bias’ in the Research
Reiko Boyd
Investing in Families through Economic Supports: An Anti-racist Approach to Supporting Families and Reducing Child Welfare Involvement
Alexandra Citrin, Megan Martin and Clare Anderson
Beyond Human-centered Design: The Promise of Antiracist Community-centered Approaches in Child Welfare Program and Policy Design
Sonya Soni, Jessica Mason and Jermeen Sherman
‘Our Agency Doesn’t Like to Use the Word Racism Let Alone Talk about It’: Firsthand Stories of Workplace Racism in Child Welfare
Sreyashi Chakravarty and Catherine K. Lawrence
‘They Don’t Understand Us and are Afraid of Us’: Black Social Workers’ Perspectives on the Role of Anti-Blackness within Foster Care Service Provision to Black Children
Dominique Mikell Montgomery
Aunties, Uncles, Me Maws, and Play Cousins: Exploring Trends in Formal Kinship Care for Black Families in Texas
Sherri Y. Simmons-Horton, Tanya N. Rollins, Richard Harris and Ashley Blackmore