History of Child Welfare in the United States and Cultural Issues April 07, 2022

This workshop will outline the history of child protection in American child welfare with a specific focus on legislation that governed the consideration of race and ethnicity in placement, adoption services, and permanency including the history of tribal child welfare. The goal will be to describe historical child welfare events and to consider how current day cultural and linguistic competence within child welfare requires a thoughtful understanding of child welfare history to share accountability for the historical trauma and distrust engendered by some facets of child welfare policy.