Journal Entries - History of Minority Populations in the Child Welfare System Article Reviews

History of Minority Populations in the Child Welfare System Article Reviews.

Dettlaff, A., & Rycraft, J. (2010). Factors contributing to disproportionality in the child

welfare system: views from the legal community. Social Work, 55(3), 213-224.

Retrieved from EBSCOhost December 11, 2011.

This is a look at the child welfare system, and how the affects of

disproportionality in the welfare system should concern communities. The article

is a summary of the welfare systems contributing factors, individual and family

risk, community risk factors, and agency risk factors. The article explains the

methods of disproportionality, data, cultural bias, recommendation for legal

support, as well as limitation on the research done in the article. A study that

shows that African Americans are most of the population in the welfare system

and this should raise concern in African American communities.

McPhatter, A. (1997). Cultural competence in child welfare: what is it? How do we

achieve it? What happens without it?. Child Welfare, 76(1), 255-278. Retrieved

from EBSCOhost Gale Power Search December 11, 2011.

This article is a good overview of the problems in our welfare system. The article

is in depth overview of the competence in the child welfare system, how we

achieve, what happens without it, and what competence of child welfare. The

steps of how we complete competence, a brief summary on literature reviews,

and the consequences of incompetence. It is important for people to understand

we have one of the best child welfare systems in the world, and how we can also

improve our standards.

The article had a few questions that make us evaluate and think about why our

society is in a cultural competence. How much time do you spend with people of

different culture? How comfortable do we feel when we are the minority in the

situation? How much time and knowledge do we spend in understanding people

of different ethnicity or culture?