Strategies for Promoting Racial Equity in Fatherhood Programs
OPRE Report #2023-206
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Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
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Key Findings
Four strategies fatherhood programs can consider to promote racial equity are:
- Increase leadership buy-in and intentional focus on racial equity
- Implement intentional training for promoting racial equity
- Create intentional spaces for vulnerable conversations around racial equity
- Invest in consultants to help promote racial equity
In August 2019, five child welfare agencies began participating in a Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) aimed to strengthen father and paternal relative involvement with their children. One component of the BSC included a Collaborative Change Framework (CCF), which comprises five domains for improving father and paternal relative engagement. Early in the project work, the experts who were developing the CCF recognized that racial equity was inextricably tied to supporting father and paternal relative engagement in the child welfare system. To reflect the importance of addressing racial equity throughout the work, it was prioritized as one of the five domains. This brief describes four strategies fatherhood programs can consider to promote racial equity based on the experiences of five child welfare agencies in the BSC and FCL project.
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