Children of color—especially Black and Indigenous children—are disproportionately
overrepresented in foster care and experience barriers in accessing services and receiving …

Prior work has examined racial and ethnic disparities in the access to and utilization of
healthcare services. However, evidence across studies is mixed, making it challenging to …

Children in foster care face heightened risk of adverse psychosocial and economic
outcomes compared with children in the general population. Yet, the effects of foster care as …

Studies have linked the experience of child abuse or adversity to health problems in
adulthood, and researchers have long documented health problems affecting children in …

Concerned with the high number of African American children in out-of-home care in an East
Texas county, the regional administrator of a state public child welfare agency asked its IV-E …

National data indicate recent increases in the number of children in foster and kinship care
placements. Children in out-of-home placements are at elevated risk for behavioral …

In spite of continuing concerns about disproportionate representation of African Americans,
American Indians, and selected other groups in foster care, development of the practice and …

OBJECTIVE: Data from the United States indicate pronounced and persistent racial/ethnic
differences in the rates at which children are referred and substantiated as victims of child …

Black and Latinx youth are more likely to be placed into foster care compared to non-Latinx
white youth. Foster care placement can facilitate mental health service use, yet youth from …

Exploration into disproportionate representation of marginalized populations in child welfare
traditionally focuses on the ratio of child welfare involved youth rather than the disparities in …