New Jersey Department of Children and Families Presents: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racism Training Series
Dr. Jessica Pryce, an expert in child welfare and anti-racism, will be training DCF stakeholders and providers throughout July and August. Dr. Pryce has previously trained or presented before members of the Children in Court Improvement Committee, the New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the DCF workforce. You can learn more about Dr. Pryce on her website.
The FREE training dates are: Friday July 23rd, 30th, and August 6th, from 10:00am-11:30am. In order to attend the FREE trainings, you must pre-register for each module to receive access. See below for a description of each module and unique registration link for each session.
Once you have registered for a specific module, you will receive a confirmation email and access to the webinar link from DCF Race Equity Initiatives (no-reply@zoom.us). Please make sure to check your Junk/Spam folder in the event you do not see the e-mail in your Inbox.
PRE-TRAINING WORK
Prior to participating in the training modules, it is strongly encouraged that you complete an Implicit Bias training that will help to inform the rest of your training experience. The training takes about 90 minutes and consist of four modules.
Click here to access the free Pre-Training work: inSight: A Workshop on Implicit Racial Bias for Child Protection Workers.
MODULE 1: History, Policy, Data, Evolutionary Change vs. Revolutionary Change
Click HERE to View the Module 1 Recording
Objectives:
- Demonstrate a sensitivity for the intergenerational trauma of minority families
- List the four dimensions of racism and each manifest within child welfare
- Recognize how history has shaped our current child welfare practice/procedures
- Define disparity and disproportionality and understand their significance
- Define evolutionary change and revolutionary change
- Identify strategies for your organization which will be revolutionary and impact change
MODULE 1 SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
- Module 1 Reflection/Discussion Questions
- Articles
- The Cumulative Prevalence of Termination of Parental Rights for U.S. Children, 2000–2016
- Federally Mandated Destruction of the Black Family: The Adoption and Safe Families
- If Adoption and Safe Families Act Can't Be Repealed, Here's How to At Least Make it Better
- Reconciliation and Reparation articles
- Discomforting presence in the classroom – the affective technologies of race, racism and whiteness
- How to Deal with Kant’s Racism— In and Out of the Classroom
- NJ Child Welfare Data Hub
MODULE 2: Power and Privilege and Protective Factors in Child Welfare
Click HERE to View the Module 2 Recording
Objectives:
- Identify strategies that enhance family engagement
- Demonstrate ability to share power with vulnerable families
- Recognize the practical tasks that those with privilege can do within our work
- Define different levels of power deconstruction within child welfare
MODULE 2 SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
MODULE 3: Mindset Shifting -- Courageous Leadership -- Systemic Change
Click HERE to View the Module 3 Recording
Objectives:
- Identify ineffective mindsets for social justice and equitable outcomes in child welfare
- Demonstrate awareness of how organizational mindsets impact child welfare
- Define the differing types of mindsets (Segretionist/Assimilationist/Anti-racist)
- Recognize the impact of each mindset on child welfare decision making
- List attributes of courageous leadership within a child welfare context
- Recognize strategies which will make meaningful change for families
MODULE 3 SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
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