Changing the Outcome: Achieving and Sustaining a Safe Reduction in Foster Care: A Policy Institute November 4-6, 2009 Tampa, FL Addressing Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare Barbara Needell, MSW, PhD Center for Social Services Research University of California at Berkeley The Performance Indicators Project is a collaboration of the California Department of Social Services and the University of California at Berkeley, and is supported by the California Department of Social Services and the Stuart Foundation

definitions disproportionality: when a group makes up a proportion of those experiencing some event that is higher or lower than that group’s proportion of the reference population disparity: a comparison of one group (e.g, regarding disproportionality, services, outcomes) to another group

CSSR.BERKELEY.EDU/UCB_CHILDWELFARE Barbara Needell bneedell@berkeley.edu CSSR.BERKELEY.EDU/UCB_CHILDWELFARE Needell, B., Webster, D., Armijo, M., Lee, S., Dawson, W., Magruder, J., Exel, M., Glasser, T., Williams, D., Zimmerman, K., Simon, V., Putnam-Hornstein, E., Frerer, K., Cuccaro-Alamin, S., Winn, A., Lou, C., & Peng, C. (2009). Child Welfare Services Reports for California. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from University of California at Berkeley Center for Social Services Research website. URL: <http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare> Presentation Developed by Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Christine Wei-Mien Lou 11