1. Achieving Racial Equity
A Multi-systems Focus
Lyman Legters
Casey Family Programs and CYPM Consultant
Shay Bilchik
Director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform

2. Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
Today’s Presenters
Lyman Legters
Senior Director
Casey Family Programs
CYPM Consultant
Shay Bilchik
Director
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform

3. Primary Webinar Objectives
Preparing the Environment for the Discussion
Identifying Racial Equity/Justice as a Cross-systems and CYPM Goal
Defining and Framing the Issue
Encouraging Multi-systems Efforts to Achieve Racial Justice
Focusing on the Crossover Population
Collaborating and Sharing Resources
Hearing from CYPM Jurisdictions

4. Introduction CYPM Goals Related to Reducing Racial Disparities
CYPM Disparity Data – Racial Disparities Exist
Focus on Responsibility and Solutions

5. Agreements Be Okay With Discomfort Listen For Understanding
Create Safe Space
There Is No Quick Fix
Stay At The Table
Adapted from The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond

6. Racial Justice
Definition: Racial Justice is the creation and proactive reinforcement of policies, practices, attitudes and actions that produce equitable power, access, opportunities, treatment, impacts and outcomes for all.
Indicators: Equitable impacts and outcomes across race is the evidence of racial justice.
2009, Adapted from Race Forward, Formerly the Applied Research Center

7. Racial Justice Racial Justice ≠ Diversity (Variety)
Racial Justice ≠ Equality (Sameness)
Racial Justice = Equity (Fairness/Justice)
09, Adapted from Race Forward, Formerly the Applied Research Center

8. Racial Justice: Related Values and Key Ideas
Equity / Equitable Outcomes
Inclusion / Accessibility
Equal Opportunity
Dignity / Human Rights
Fairness / Fair Treatment
Shared Power and Resources
2009, Adapted from Race Forward, Formerly the Applied Research Center

9. Racial Justice: Foundation for Change
Focuses on changing systems, institutional practices, policies and outcomes
Is pro-active – develops and promotes equitable strategies and solutions
Requires ongoing attention to consciousness and strategic action – cannot be “colorblind” or silent.

10. Framing the Issue
Understand levels of racism – focus on institutions and structures
Dominant public frames are powerful
Personal responsibility
Post-racial
Colorblind
Embrace a “responsibility” frame

11. Racial Equity and Systems Integration
Disparities exist in all systems
Disparities in one system impact disparities in other systems
Analysis and strategies are similar
Racial Equity Impact tools
Policy and practice lenses
Workforce capacity building
CYPM structure supports cross-systems racial equity work

12. Racial Equity and The Crossover Youth Practice Model

13. Who Are Crossover Youth?
Dually-Involved
Dually-Adjudicated

14. What is the Crossover Youth Practice Model?
The Crossover Youth Practice Model describes the specific practices that need to be in place within a jurisdiction in order to reduce the number of youth who cross over between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the number of youth entering and reentering care, and the length of stay in out of home care. The CYPM infuses into its work values and standards, evidence-based practices, policies and procedures, and quality assurance processes. It provides a template for how states can immediately impact how they service crossover youth and rapidly impact outcomes.

15. CYPM Values Strength-based approaches Collaborative systemic responses
Fair and equitable treatment
Evidence-based

16. CYPM Goals Reductions in:
the number of youth placed in out-of-home care
the use of congregate care
the disproportionate representation of youth of color, particularly in the crossover population
the number of youth crossing over and becoming dually-adjudicated

17. What Contributes to Crossing Over
Placement Type
Placement Instability
Lack of School Stability
Absence of Positive Attachments
Diminished Positive Youth Development Opportunities

18. Characteristics of Crossover Youth
African-American Youth Overrepresented
Female Youth Overrepresented
High Rates of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems
Truancy
Academic and Behavioral Problems at School

19. Juvenile Justice System Experiences
Reduced Opportunities for Diversion
High Rates of Detention
Disparities in Use of Out of Home Placement
Lack of Permanency Planning

20. Overrepresentation in the Crossover Youth Population
Source: Ryan, Joseph. Investigating DMC in Juvenile Justice: The Role of Child Welfare. PowerPoint presentation. 16 March 2010.

21. Disproportionality Through a Cross- Systems Lens
Overrepresentation and disproportionality are long standing – and stubborn – issues for both child welfare and juvenile justice
At national level, African Americans account for approximately 15% of the population, 25% of child protection investigations, 30% of substantiated cases and 36% of placement cases
Maltreated children and adolescents are at an increased risk of delinquency
Despite these well established facts, there has been no work focused on understanding and estimating child welfare contribution to DMC in juvenile justice
Research Questions: (1) Does the child welfare system contribute to DMC in juvenile justice? (2) Are specific types of child welfare placements associated with an increased risk of juvenile justice involvement? (3) Are African American youth disproportionately exposed to such placements in the child welfare system? and (4) Is there a lingering effect for children in the foster care system beyond the point of arrest?
Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation presented at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

22. Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

23. 7% of all detention placements have open CW cases
Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

24. One might argue that CW is not contributing to DMC if 7% emerged within each column
Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

25. Open CW cases account for 7% of all detentions, yet account for 16% of all AA youth entering detention
Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

26. CW contributing to DMC in JJ, especially for AA females
Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

27. Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

28. Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

29. Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

30. Summary of Results
Child welfare does contribute to DMC in Juvenile Justice
Consistent across all sites, and at various levels throughout Juvenile Justice System, especially for girls
Estimates would be far greater if we considered children/families previously involved with DCFS (7% vs. 21%)
Child welfare should be included in discussions of DMC and DMC-related efforts
Source: Ryan, Joseph (2010). “Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice.” PowerPoint presentation at the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference on June 24.

31. Further Implications of Ryan’s Research
Disparities in one system may contribute to disproportionality in other systems:
Education
Mental Health

32. DMC/DMR Workgroup Task
Ensure that issues related to DMC/DMR are being addressed for the crossover youth population.
Analyze characteristics related to crossover in the context of race, ethnicity and gender

33. Strategies to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Crossover Population
Increasing Transparency
Management information systems must be able to collect race and ethnicity information, and they must be able to cross agency boundaries.
Re-engineering Structures and Procedures
Processes and procedures should be reviewed on a routine basis to determine whether they contribute to disparities, and when they do, they should be re- designed.
Mobilizing Political Leadership
Build awareness and consensus among the key decision makers in order to advance needed changes in policy and practice through their ownership of and leadership on the issue.
Changing Organizational Culture
Influence the attitudes and values of agency staff in order to shape organizational culture in a way that may reduce disparate treatment and disproportionality.
Partnering in Developing Family and Community Resources
Work at the community level to build better support systems for families.
Source: Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: A Compendium, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Chapin Hall (2009)

34. Resources
CJJR: Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: A Compendium
The Aspen Institute:
Haywood Burns Institute (Adoration of the Question, Balancing the Scales of Justice) .org
Center for the Study of Social Policy:
Race Forward:
Government Alliance on Race and Equity:
Frameworks Institute:
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond:

35. Dialogue/Q and A
Describe the barriers to eliminating disparities in your jurisdictions
How can CJJR add support to your efforts to eliminate disparities?
What successes are you seeing in your work on racial disparities?
Q and A