To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation | Jessica Pryce

In this eye-opening talk about the impact of race and neighborhood on foster-care decisions, social worker Jessica Pryce shares a promising solution to help child welfare agencies make bias-free assessments about when to remove children from their families. "Let's work together to build a system that wants to make families stronger instead of pulling them apart," Pryce says.

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[lvd]

Hey Ted, could you link sources in the description. Would help a lot with raising the quality of arguments.

[TheRealDealKhaleel]

Ted talks, but does Ted ever listen🤔😔

[virgoplushie]

Yes 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 “Let’s create a system that wants to make families stronger instead of pulling them apart”

[thacandyhouse]

"Blind Removal"
This is amazing and would make all the difference in the world to a lot of people. 🏆

[nigelreed]

I was thinking 'oh god' when she mentioned subconscious racist bias but that was actually quite a pertinent well put forward (perhaps proven) example. And most importantly a beginning of a solution.

[LeeSeanSullivan]

I am on the right and I agree blind removals sound good, black and white case workers must be honest though or they are harming the children and they could be accountable for what happens to the children in this life and maybe the next (If you believe in that).

[TreasaWalker]

What an eye opener. Problem/solution. Would love to see other states adopt this.

[malakaitaumohaapai]

Great presentation. Let's be thankful that they are doing this work. It's so easy for people to comment here. Listen up and learn something.

[rea]

Amazing discovery and a great story! I don't think I could ever do this job simply because I feel like my heart would break seeing some people live in such poor conditions. And to add on top of that the fact that I would be biased and separate the family just because of the race... That is even worse.

But having a friend who works in child services, she is sometimes so angry with the system that has many flaws, such as deciding to not take children out of horrible families because there is not enough evidence.

[jazlovespink]

Amazing. This is very relevant throughout the world. I’m in Australia and the blind removals process should be implemented here. First nationals Australians are overrrepresented in foster care and juvenile detention, as are African Australians and Pasifika Australians!

[jimdawse]

So the blind removal reduced removal bias based on demographics. The important question to ask has to be was this in the best interest of the child? That is what needs to be addressed here, not the basic idea of bias.

[littlebearmedia]

Are there any links to these references she is using, particularly the blind removal data 5 years down from 57% to 21% for black children?

[sanctuarydivinehealingmini]

Definitely an eye opener and perception changer. Thank you 🙏

[michaelc]

She says take race out out of it but this was all about race, specifically one color vs a second color - as if there are only two colors.

[someothergrl]

Her example does not take racial biases out of the equation because the worker who goes into the home still has biases, and those biases will come through in the report unless there is an intense training that instructs workers how to write or give a report that contains only facts and nothing else But I do think it's a very good start.

[thisismetv_]

“High numbers of black kids going into foster care”. Well madam, if one thing is true it is the fact that more black children are born into single mother homes and more black children are raised in communities where fathers are near non-existent. The issues isn’t the child welfare system, but the welfare system that is in need of a complete overhaul. Stop rewarding single family households and start rewarding complete family structures.

[iogssothoth]

Removing race out of the equation ? Sure, good idea. But the neighborhood ? How is that irrelevant ? When I grew up, my parents let my brother and I wander alone unsupervised for kilometers around the house.

Had we lived in a sketchy neighborhood instead of the country, the behaviour would have been irresponsible instead of being good parenting. The neighborhood can mean everything. Considering how parents should behave.

[Rolroorlo]

Race is never in the equation, you are putting it in

[tbucker]

Devon Tracey's "Racism of the Gaps"

[Burgerzaza]

I think a lot of places naturally push minorities into positions of poverty. People in poverty have a tendency to commit more crimes, and when its people of this racial background committing a large number of crimes, their backgrounds disregarded, it looks like a racial problem. My state Oklahoma has one of the highest native populations in the country, of course also one of the highest drug incarceration and lowest income places in the country. We have a different problem, where we imprison more women then all other places(that register it) on earth.

Theres a lot of factors that go into these situations, racism created a socio-economic divide between races, that divide caused crime to grow, breeding more racism. This racism caused a more standoffish and violent bender in a lot of youth black culture, which breeds more racism. When I say it breeds racism, I mean on both sides. its this circle of socioeconomic bullshit feeding into racism and vice versa. The millennials, and gen Z, might be the generations to start reversing this trend.

The foster care system messes a lot of kids up, I would know, I was in a mental institution and met quite a few. Also they told us they used the institutions as a half way house for the kids when they didnt want to deal with them, or had nowhere else for them. That wasnt the kids saying that, that was staff. I think the blind evaluations will help keep kids out of the system more often, but it's only a small sub problem of the clusterscrew that is socioeconomic driven racism in America.