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Hvis barnevernet skal reformeres, må hudfargeaspektet ut.

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Jessica Pryce |

TED Residency

• May 2018

Jessica Pryce diskuterer effekten hudfarge og bosted har på barnevernets omsorgsoverdragelser og presenterer en metode som kan gjøre barnevernets vurderinger mer objektive. "La oss sammen skape et system som styrker familier istedenfor å rive dem fra hverandre" sier Pryce.

Jessica Pryce diskuterer effekten hudfarge og bosted har på barnevernets omsorgsoverdragelser og presenterer en metode som kan gjøre barnevernets vurderinger mer objektive. "La oss sammen skape et system som styrker familier istedenfor å rive dem fra hverandre" sier Pryce.

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Jessica Pryce

Child advocate, social scientist

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Jessica Pryce creates strategies to reduce the impact of racial bias in child protective services.

Pryce, J., Lee, W., Sellati, E., Park, D., McCarthy, M. and Owens, G. | Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2018 | Article

"A Case Study in Public Child Welfare: Promising Practices that Lower Racial Disparity in Foster Care Placement"

This article discusses in detail the entirety of the research that discovered Blind Removal Meetings.

Dorothy Roberts | Civitas Books, 2002 | Book

Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare

Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis: the disproportionate representation of black children in the US foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots.

Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg | New York Times, 2017 | Book

“Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of Jane Crow"

This article brings to light the racial disparity within child welfare and the unfair treatment of black mothers by the system.

Jessica Pryce | The Conversation, 2018 | Article

"The history of separating families and the trauma that lingers"

This article traces back the history of government-sanctioned family separation. Although this article centers on immigrants, it discusses the trauma that lingers from unnecessarily separating children from their parents.

Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011 | Article

"Addressing Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare"

Font, S., Berger, L. and Slack, K. | Child Youth Services Review, 2012 | Article

"Examining Racial Disproportionality in Child Protective Services Case Decisions"

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Learn more about Blind Removals and stay updated on new data from the internal monitoring and tracking by Nassau County, New York.

Implement Blind Removals in your agency.