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Cultural Competence
Resources to help workers, agencies, and systems better understand and enhance their cultural competence. Includes information on working with children, youth, and families; disproportional representation of minority groups in the child welfare system; culturally competent services; training for child welfare staff; and the specific role of cultural competence in child maltreatment, out-of-home care, and adoption.
Overview
General information about cultural competence and child welfare.
Disproportionality
Disproportional representation of minority groups in the child welfare system, including data, causes, and approaches to reducing it.
Agency/system change
How agencies and systems can work to become culturally competent.
Working with children and families
How child welfare workers can integrate cultural competence into their work with families from different cultures.
Child abuse and neglect
Information about the relationship between culture and child maltreatment, including assessing and recognizing child maltreatment and working with specific minority groups.
Preventing child abuse and neglect
Includes information about the role of cultural values in parenting practices and culturally competent strategies for strengthening families.
Out-of-home care
The role of cultural competence in out-of-home care, including working with children from minority groups, children who are immigrants, and foster parents.
Adoption
The role of cultural competence in adoption, including transracial/transcultural adoption, adopting children from minority groups, and adoption by gay and lesbian families.
Services
How cultural competence can be incorporated into services to children and families, including mental health, judicial/legal, family preservation, and family-centered services.
Child welfare staff training
Training for child welfare staff on cultural competence and child welfare, including Indian Child Welfare.
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