"The Howard University School of Social Work has received a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to evaluate the effectiveness of racial equality standards in countering the overrepresentation of African Americans in child welfare systems....
“The rate of African-American children in the child welfare system remains disproportionate to their numbers in the general population,” Gourdine said in a statement. “Too many African-American children are removed from their homes and efforts should be made to eliminate risk faced by children in fragile families in need of intervention services.”
"Studies have shown that some of the reasons African-American children are removed from their homes involve poverty, racism and a lack of cultural competency...."
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