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Racial Disproportionality and Disparity

The Family to Family Process in Fresno County. . . 2002. Family to Family begins. . 2003. (4) Family to Family Task Groups get underway. Educating Community Supports and Leadership. Disproportionality Committee begins. 2004. 2005. 2006. . . . . . . . Development/Evolution of RDD Work. Development of Transparent System-TDM community reps-Neighborhood collaboratives-Cultural Brokers-Constant self-evaluation and use of data-Forums with five Tribes/DCFS Administration.

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Racial Disproportionality and Disparity

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    1. Racial Disproportionality and Disparity Fresno County Department of Children and Family Services April 2008

    3. The Family to Family Process in Fresno County Through our work with family to family and the collection of data we staThrough our work with family to family and the collection of data we sta

    4. Development/Evolution of RDD Work Development of Transparent System -TDM community reps -Neighborhood collaboratives -Cultural Brokers -Constant self-evaluation and use of data -Forums with five Tribes/DCFS Administration

    5. RDD work cont. Systems Changes: Formation of RDD committee Staff and community partners included Developed Key Result Areas (KRAs) to incorporate fairness and equity within practice expectations Hired RDD Coordinator Engaged Line Supervisors in discussions on RDD ICWA PPG’s (don’t know what this is?) Established ? ICWA training-unit staff

    6. RDD work cont. Practice Changes: Front door engagement with families African American Facilitator with African American families Ongoing fairness and equity training “Undoing Racism” for staff Brown-bag lunches/videos and speakers dealing with fairness and equity issues Established “Cultural Brokers”

    7. Who are Fresno County’s Cultural Brokers?

    8. Role of the Cultural Broker

    9. A line graph (0% to 35% scale) depicting the representation of Black Children in Fresno County entering into care from 2000 to 2006 with the rate of entry into care (%) identified at each point (year.) The population rates from Slide 8 remain to illustrate the regular, although decreasing, overrepresentation. In 2006 that overrepresentation was only a difference (6.85 – 6.22) of .63 which translates to a rate (.63 / 6.22) of 10.13%.A line graph (0% to 35% scale) depicting the representation of Black Children in Fresno County entering into care from 2000 to 2006 with the rate of entry into care (%) identified at each point (year.) The population rates from Slide 8 remain to illustrate the regular, although decreasing, overrepresentation. In 2006 that overrepresentation was only a difference (6.85 – 6.22) of .63 which translates to a rate (.63 / 6.22) of 10.13%.

    10. Why care

    11. What do we need to support this work Training and education -university and academy -community agencies -judicial system Funding that supports ancillary services Begin RDD discussion with other community partners i.e. education, mental health, criminal justice, probation

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