Child Advocacy Program

Harvard Law School

Race and Child Welfare:
Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination:
Re-Assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options

Working Conference at Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
January 28 – 29, 2011

Conference-Related Materials
(Post-Conference Papers, Presentation Papers and Conference-related Articles)

 

Post-Conference Papers, Articles, and Related Workshop

Baeder, Ben. “Studies: Disproportionate Number of Black Children Wind Up in L.A. Foster Care,” DailyNews.com (March 23, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. “Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System: Effective Early Intervention to Prevent Maltreatment and Protect Victimized Children,” 60 Buff. L. Rev. 1321 (2012).

Bartholet, Elizabeth, Fred Wulczyn, Richard P. Barth, and Cindy Lederman, “Issue Brief on Race & Child Welfare,” June 2011, on SSRN.

Bartholet, “Race & Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re-Assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options,” July 2011, on SSRN.

 

Presentation Synopses/Papers/Powerpoints/Outlines

Please see our Archived Conference Videos page for Powerpoint presentations from some of the speakers listed here.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. (2011, January 28). “Opening Introduction to Race and Child Welfare Conference,” Harvard Law School.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. (2011, January 29). “Introduction to Saturday Race and Child Welfare Conference Sessions,” Harvard Law School.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. (2011, January). “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Berrick, Jill Duerr. (2011, Jan 29).  Presentation Statement, Harvard Law School.

Daro, Deborah.  (2011, January).  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Drake, Brett and Melissa Jonson-Reid.  “NIS interpretations: Race and the National Incidence Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect,” 16–20 Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011).

Drake, Brett.  (2011, January).  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Dorman, Lily Colby. (2011, January).  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Fenner, Eric.  (2011, January 29). Presentation Statement, Harvard Law School.

Fluke, John.  (2011, January).  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Houston, Claire.  (2011, January).  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Lancour, Anne Marie.  “Pennsylvania Permanency Barriers Projects — Two Approaches to Achieving Timely Permanency,” ABA Center on Children and the Law.  Informational Sheet.

Lederman, J. C.  (2011, January 29). Presentation Statement, Harvard Law School.

Mattingly, John B. (2011, January 29). “Panel Presentation: The Centrality of Practice Race and Child Welfare Conference,” Presentation Outline, Harvard Law School.

Needell, Barbara and Emily Putnam-Hornstein. (2011, January).  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

Roberts, Dorothy.  “Synopsis of Race and Child Welfare Conference Remarks,” Harvard Law School.

 

Conference-Related Materials including Articles

Bartholet, Elizabeth. “The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions,” 51 Ariz. L. Rev. 871 (2009).

Daro, Deborah and Kenneth A. Dodge.  “Strengthening Home-Visiting Intervention Policy: Expanding Reach, Building Knowledge.”

Drake, Brett, Jennifer M. Jolley, Paul Lanier, John Fluke, Richard P. Barth, and Melissa Jonson-Reid. “Racial Bias in Child Protection? A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data,” Pediatrics (doi:10.1542/peds.2010-1710) (February 7, 2011).

Lederman, J. C. “Science in the Courtroom: Vital to Best Interests and Reasonable Efforts. Juvenile and Family Court Journal,” 61: 63–68. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-6988.2009.01039.x (2010).

Putnam-Hornstein, Emily and Barbara Needell. “Predictors of Child Protective Service Contact between Birth and Age Five: An Examination of California’s 2002 Birth Cohort” (Accepted for Publication: Children and Youth Services Review).

“Reducing Racial Disparities in the Child Welfare System” Policy Resolution, Approved by the American Bar Association House of Delegates (August 11, 2008).

Roberts, Dorothy E. “The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Towards a New Research Paradigm, ” Child Welfare League of America 87(2): 125–50.

Sedlak, Andrea J.et al, “Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4) (2009-2010),” Report to Congress.