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- Know the issues and understand the data
- Systemic and structural failures of our system
- Differential treatment of children of color in the system
- The color of discipline
- Implications of zero tolerance
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- Students trapped in school-to-prison pipeline
- Helping youth understand their rights
- Focus on treatment rather than punishment
- Effectiveness of Correct Course and Restorative Practice
- Valuing the voice of consumers
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- Family Preservation Initiatives/Programs that
- provide prevention services for families/children:
- Early On
- Strong Families/Safe Children
- Families with Children Zero to Three
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- Family Preservation Initiatives/Programs that provide services to keep
families in tact and avoid out of home placement:
- Child Protection/Community Partners
- Families Together: Building
Solutions
- Family Group Decision Making
- Strong Families/Safe Children
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- Family Preservation Initiatives/Programs that provide services to keep
families in tact and avoid out of home placement:
- Families First of Michigan
- Team Decision Making Process (Permanency Planning Conferences)
- Wraparound Process
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- Family Preservation Initiatives/Programs that provide services to
reunify families and avoid out of home placement:
- Family Reunification Program
- Community Partner Collaboration with TDM Meeting Involvement
- Parent Partners Program
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- Poverty
- Joblessness
- Substance Abuse
- Mental Health
- Parent/Family/Community Risk Factors
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- Organizational Bias
- Practices and Procedures
- System Racism
- Delay in Exit from System
- Lack of Community Resources
- Lack of Adequate Prevention
- Funding and Services
- Lack of Adequate Cultural Training
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- Issue not seen as a problem; not seen as needing urgent response
- Assessment bias
- Must think and plan for exit at intake and monitor
- Lack of data and monitoring
- Lack of connections between values and practice
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- Practice/Policy Barriers
- Organizational Structural Factors
- Insufficient Training
- Lack measurable strategies for exiting system
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- Place the issue in the realm of urgency
- Commitment/Leadership is key
- Identify organizational values
- What gets monitored and measured is what gets done
- Establish a committee or process on overrepresentation
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- Race, Equity and Cultural Competence Committee Work Group
- Infuse with Continuous Quality Improvement or Utilization Review
- Collect data and monitor
- Make Data Driven Decision Making with Values
- Provide ongoing culturally appropriate training
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- Encourage open and authentic communication about potential bias.
- Examine bias at points of decision making.
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- Explicit Bias
- Our stated values which we use to deliberately direct our decisions and
behavior.
- Implicit Bias
- Our unconscious attitudes and beliefs that influence our decisions and
behavior.
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- Look at the bias at the points of interception.
- Utilize data to target your efforts.
- The system will improve if we have the courage and are willing to make
improvements in needed services.
- Transform the work in your agency.
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- Consistently transform the organization to meet the needs of the youth
and families.
- Valuing parents as partners.
- Thinking and planning for the exit of the youth at intake.
- As our behavior changes, we change outcomes for children, families, and
the community.
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- Ensuring youth exit system sooner
- Greater emphasis on prevention
- Strengthening community connections
- Collecting and sharing data
- Expanding community-based options
- Maximizing resources
- Joint culturally competent training
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- Where do we go from here?:
- Assess your organization’s response to overrepresentation. Identify the actions That you will
take when you return to your worksite.
Remember, “You can make a difference.”
- 1. How, when, and by whom is the issue of overrepresentation discussed,
measured, or monitored in your organization?
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- How is organizational leadership engaged in promoting this issue as a
problem to be resolved?
- Describe what is occurring in your organization to reduce
overrepresentation of children of color.
- What more would you like to see happen?
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- 5. Are organizational values aligned with practice and outcomes?
- 6. What are the three (3) decisive actions that you will take to make a
difference?
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