➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: In Child Welfare, “White Supremacy” is the Hate that Dare Not Speak its Name (Opinion)
Chronicle of Social Change – March 21, 2017
CASA is the program in which minimally trained volunteers, overwhelmingly white and middle-class, are assigned to families who are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. Then they tell judges if the children should be taken from those families, sometimes forever. In more than 60 percent of cases, according to a study discussed in more detail below, judges rubber-stamp every single recommendation these amateurs make.
Also: Information Gateway Resource: Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/racial_disproportionality.pdf
Also: However Kindly Intentioned: Structural Racism and Volunteer CASA Programs: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2924920
Also: Law Review Article Calls CASA an ‘Exercise of White Supremacy’: https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/blogger-co-op/law-review-article-calls-casa-exercise-white-supremacy/25358
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/blogger-co-op/child-welfare-white-supremacy-hate-dare-not-speak-name/25710