Lived Experiences of Racism Among Child Welfare-Involved Parents

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Darcey H. Merritt
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Involved Parents

scholarly journals Distinguishing Racism, Not Race, as a Risk Factor for Child Welfare Involvement: Reclaiming the Familial and Cultural Strengths in the Lived Experiences of Child Welfare-Affected Parents of Color

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Tricia N. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Parents Of Color ◽  
Family Centered

Child welfare-affected parents of color (CW-PaoC) are often described using language that is deficit-focused, their families depicted as fragile and living in a near constant state of crisis and need. This commentary challenges the stereotypes created by hyper-attention to these parents’ struggles and situates them, and their families, within the broader context of the American appetite for family separation, wherein specific types of families are targeted for scrutiny, intervention and regulation. The concept of fragility within families is dissected to illustrate the ways in which racism and classism demarcate certain families for separation. Excerpts from two separate interviews conducted with Black mothers in 2014 and 2020 are used to illustrate how the appetite for family separation is currently fed. Familial and cultural strengths that counteract the prevailing deficit-focused narrative of CW-PaoC, particularly Black parents, are discussed. This commentary ends with a call for the dissolution of the CW system in its current regulatory form and the rebuilding of family-centered supports that center familial strengths.

When the Norwegian child-welfare services get involved: parents making sense of referrals

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 946-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingunn Studsrød ◽  
Ingunn T. Ellingsen ◽  
Elisabeth Willumsen
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Involved Parents

scholarly journals The California Linkages Program: Doorway to Housing Support for Child Welfare-Involved Parents

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 125-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy D'Andrade ◽  
James David Simon ◽  
Danna Fabella ◽  
Lolita Castillo ◽  
Cesar Mejia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Involved Parents

Enhancing Behavioral Health Services for Child Welfare-Involved Parents: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Shamra M. Boel-Studt ◽  
Heather A. Flynn ◽  
Megan E. Deichen Hansen ◽  
Lisa S. Panisch
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Behavioral Health Services ◽  
Involved Parents

scholarly journals Feasibility of engaging child welfare-involved parents with substance use disorders in research: key challenges and lessons learned

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Susan Yoon ◽  
Kathryn Coxe ◽  
Alicia Bunger ◽  
Bridget Freisthler ◽  
Elinam Dellor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Involved Parents

Three sides to a foster care story: An examination of the lived experiences of young adults, their foster care case record, and the space in between

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Rolock ◽  
Alfred G Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Case Record ◽  
State Custody

Between 2000 and 2013, the U.S. foster care caseload decreased while the number of children in adoptive homes doubled. These shifts were a result of federal policies prioritizing the moving of children from state custody into legal permanence (e.g., adoption and guardianship) with the presumption they will live “happily ever after.” This study used a mixed-methods multiphase, iterative process to illuminate the congruencies and incongruencies between the young adults' accounts of their foster care experiences and the legalistic, system-focused view of their experiences. This study highlights the limitations of administrative data as the primary source for evaluating systems, assessing child well-being, and for understanding child welfare outcomes. An important consideration for assessing the success of the child welfare system in finding safe, stable, permanent placements for children involved with the child welfare system is including the perceptions of the young adults with foster care histories. There are often three sides to a foster care story: the lived experiences of the participant, the official case record, and the space in between. This study begins to illuminate this space, through an understanding of the quality and enduring nature of these relationships as reported by young adults who lives were impacted by their foster care histories. Child welfare records indicate a legal permanency status, but the interviews address the enduring nature and quality of the relationships.

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