Derezotes Dennette, Richardson Brad, King Connie Bear, Kleinschmit-Rembert Julia, Pratt Betty
Race Matters Consortium, Westat, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
Child Welfare. 2008;87(2):241-54.
Working in four communities, Casey Foundation/Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Alliance on Racial Equity (the Alliance) have developed a Racial Equity Scorecard for measuring disproportionality at key decision points for use in impacting disproportionality in the child welfare system. The four communities include King County, Washington; Guilford County, North Carolina; Ramsey County, Minnesota; and Woodbury County, Iowa. Data from one site--Woodbury County, Iowa--are used as an example. This article provides the background and method for identification and measurement of key decision points in the child welfare system to track change effected by multisystemic approaches to reduce disproportionality. Interpretation of the results in the scorecard is provided and recommendations for future interventions based on the data are discussed.
凯西基金会/社会政策研究中心（CSSP）种族公平联盟（以下简称“联盟”）在四个社区开展工作，制定了一份种族公平记分卡，用于衡量儿童福利系统关键决策点上的不均衡现象，以影响该系统中的不均衡状况。这四个社区包括华盛顿州金县、北卡罗来纳州吉尔福德县、明尼苏达州拉姆齐县和爱荷华州伍德伯里县。本文以爱荷华州伍德伯里县这一地点的数据为例，介绍了儿童福利系统中关键决策点的识别和衡量背景及方法，以追踪多系统方法为减少不均衡所带来的变化。文中还给出了记分卡结果的解读，并讨论了基于这些数据的未来干预建议。
