Children, Families, and Youth Development
Overview
Resources in this section highlight some of the ways that systems of inequity profoundly influence the opportunities available to children, youth and families, and ways that various groups have sought to increase positive effects and prevent or reduce negative ones. The resources included in this section also highlight the primary role that family and other early factors have in shaping life experiences. They also seek to shed light on the myriad ways that racial inequity is present in those experiences, even from their very beginning. From unsafe neighborhoods to greater exposure to environmental toxins, children of color are frequently exposed to a variety of negative effects to which white children typically are not. These facts are daunting, and, at the same time, offer very clear paths for transformation and entry points to early intervention and support.
Key sites
- Alliance for Race Equity Web site
- Strong Families
- Black Youth Project
- Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
- Embrace Race
- Counsel or Criminalize? Why Students of Color Need Supports, Not Suspensions
Research
- A Brief Overview Of Race And Social Welfare History: Key Legislation
- The Childhood Opportunity Gap
- Structural Racism and Youth Development
- Village Building and School Readiness: Closing Opportunity Gaps in a Diverse Society
- A Way Out: Creating Partners for our Nation's Prosperity by Expanding Life Paths of Young Men of Color - Dellums Commission Final Report
- Study Finds Child Welfare System Treats African American Families Differently
- Recent Works on Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System
- Race and Child Welfare
- The Consequences of Structural Racism, Concentrated Poverty and Violence on Young Men and Boys of Color
- The Political Impact of Young People of Color in the 2012 Election
- Transracial Adoption: Promoting Racial Literacy or Perpetuating Colorblind Racism?
- Life Cycles of Inequity: A Colorlines Series on Black Men
- Being Black is Not a Risk Factor: A Strengths-Based Look at the State of the Black Child
- Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Services in the U.S.
- How We're Priming Some Kids for College - and Others For Prison
- Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected
- A Conceptual Mapping of Healing Centered Youth Organizing: Building a Case for Healing Justice
- Removing Barriers to Breastfeeding: A Structural Race Analysis of First Food
- Changing Course: Improving Outcomes for African American Males Involved with Child Welfare Systems
- Lifting All Children Up
- Addressing Masculine Norms to Improve Life Outcomes for Young Black Men: Why We Still Can’t Wait
- Hundreds of Students Report Bullying, Threats and Attacks in Weeks After the Election
- State of Texas Children 2016: Race and Equity
- Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys
- National Birth Equity Collaborative
- Intergenerational Equity: A Framework
Practices
- Engaging Communities in Taking a Stand for Children and Families Leadership Development and Strategic Planning in the Texas Child Welfare System
- Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare
- Ramsey County Ending Racial Disparities Project
- Texas Child Welfare Partnership with The People's Institute and Casey Family Programs Produces Positive Results for Children
- Five Myths of Talking about Race with your child
- Child Welfare Practice: Creating a Successful Climate for Change: Findings and considerations from an Institutional Analysis
- "Racially Conscientious" Parenting in a "Colorblind" Society
- Why We Can't Wait: A Case for Philanthropic Action: Opportunities for Improving Life Outcomes for African-American Males
- My Brother’s Keeper Task Force: Report to the President
- Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work Profession to Action
- How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
- Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected
- Strategies to Reduce Racially Disparate Outcomes in Child Welfare: A National Scan
- Undoing Racism: Anti-Racist Analysis, Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in Child Welfare
- Disproportionality Diagnostic Tool
- Student Activism in School Getting Your Voice Heard: Resources, inspiration and expert advice for making a difference on and off campus
- Raising Race Concious Children
- Black Girls MIA
- The Dos and Dont's of Talking to Kids of Color About White Supremacy
- Explaining Charlottesville to my 7-year-old
- What White Children Need to Know About Race
- Equity Conversation Guides for Young Leaders and Partners
- A Conversation About Growing Up Black
- The Community Opportunity Map
- Speak Up: Opening a Dialogue with Youth about Racism
- Resource Guide For White Teachers & Parents Developing Racial Consciousness and Moving into Action (& the POC Working or In Relationship With Them)"
- How To Talk To Your Kids About Race And Justice
- For White Teachers & Parents Developing Racial Consciousness and Moving into Action (& the POC Working or In Relationship With Them)
