Racism in Child Welfare -- National Public Radio

NPR's Michel Martin aired a segment this week about racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system, a topic addressed previously on this Blog (including in an entry dated January 27, 2009).  Guests included Kristen Weber of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Bernadette Blount, a parent advocate with New York's Child Welfare Organizing Project, and Toni Heineman, Director of A Home Within.  Click on this link and then click again on "listen here" to hear the program (17 mins 26 secs.)

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