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Message ID: 10813

Date: 2020-06-12

Author:Dettlaff, Alan J

Subject:Call for Abstracts: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches

Dear Colleagues, Please see the Call for Abstracts below from Child Welfare on Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches. I hope you will consider a submission if you’re doing work related to this topic. I’d also appreciate if you could share with your networks, particularly to people outside of the social work circles that I’m in, as I know many other disciplines are doing work in this area. Thank you very much! Alan Dettlaff, PhD Dean and Maconda Brown O’Connor Endowed Dean’s Chair University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Call for Abstracts: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches The Child Welfare League of America is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for a special issue of Child Welfare dedicated to transforming child welfare through anti-racist approaches. Much has changed since CWLA published its first special issue on challenging racial disproportionality in child welfare in 2008. However, the overrepresentation of children of color and inequitable outcomes for children of color persist. While progress has been made, attention to and urgency to act on racial disproportionality and disparities has waned in recent years, and what has been observed as a problem for more than five decades is now viewed by many as an acceptable status quo. This is due in large part to binary debates regarding whether disproportionality is the result of racial bias in child welfare or of differing levels of need due to poverty and related factors. This debate not only has stifled efforts to address disproportionality, but has distracted from the negative and oppressive impact of racism that creates disproportionality and disparities, both within child welfare and within society at large. At a time in our history where we are witnessing the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, it is imperative for the child welfare field to return our attention to the racial inequities that persist in this system, and identify solutions to achieve racial equity. Prospective authors should submit abstracts of up to 750 words to Rachel Adams, managing editor, at radams@cwla.org by August 3, 2020. Abstracts should display the use of person-first language (i.e., “children in foster care,” not “foster children”), clearly identify the topic, methods (including data sources for empirical papers), expected or preliminary findings, and practice and policy implications. Invitations to submit a full article will be extended by August 15. Initial drafts of the selected papers are due by November 9, and final papers are expected by March 15, 2021. Publication of the special issue is targeted for Summer 2021. Guest editors are Alan Dettlaff (University of Houston) and Kristen Weber (Center for the Study of Social Policy). More information and details can be found here .

Dear Colleagues, Please see the Call for Abstracts below from Child Welfare on Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches. I hope you will consider a submission if you’re doing work related to this topic. I’d also appreciate if you could share with your networks, particularly to people outside of the social work circles that I’m in, as I know many other disciplines are doing work in this area. Thank you very much! Alan Dettlaff, PhD Dean and Maconda Brown O’Connor Endowed Dean’s Chair University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Call for Abstracts: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches The Child Welfare League of America is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for a special issue of Child Welfare dedicated to transforming child welfare through anti-racist approaches. Much has changed since CWLA published its first special issue on challenging racial disproportionality in child welfare in 2008. However, the overrepresentation of children of color and inequitable outcomes for children of color persist. While progress has been made, attention to and urgency to act on racial disproportionality and disparities has waned in recent years, and what has been observed as a problem for more than five decades is now viewed by many as an acceptable status quo. This is due in large part to binary debates regarding whether disproportionality is the result of racial bias in child welfare or of differing levels of need due to poverty and related factors. This debate not only has stifled efforts to address disproportionality, but has distracted from the negative and oppressive impact of racism that creates disproportionality and disparities, both within child welfare and within society at large. At a time in our history where we are witnessing the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, it is imperative for the child welfare field to return our attention to the racial inequities that persist in this system, and identify solutions to achieve racial equity. Prospective authors should submit abstracts of up to 750 words to Rachel Adams, managing editor, at radamscwla.org by August 3, 2020. Abstracts should display the use of person-first language (i.e., “children in foster care,” not “foster children”), clearly identify the topic, methods (including data sources for empirical papers), expected or preliminary findings, and practice and policy implications. Invitations to submit a full article will be extended by August 15. Initial drafts of the selected papers are due by November 9, and final papers are expected by March 15, 2021. Publication of the special issue is targeted for Summer 2021. Guest editors are Alan Dettlaff (University of Houston) and Kristen Weber (Center for the Study of Social Policy). More information and details can be found here .