Do you know your DEI?
What are land acknowledgments? Extra 50 points if you can name what land we are currently on.
Land acknowledgments are formal statements that recognize and respect the history of Indigenous People and their traditional stewardship of the land. It is a small portion of what can be done to continue to acknowledge and advocate for Indigenous land sovereignty.
What identity group does ABA Resolution 606 specifically center on?
Black children, parents, and family members who have been affected by the child welfare system.
T or F Implicit and Explicit bias is the same thing.
FALSE
True or False- System-impacted people emphasize that the right to family integrity should also include and consider extended family.
True!
_______means that each individual or a group receives the same exact resources or opportunities.
A. Equality
B. Equity
What is Equality?
T or F ABA 606 urges all federal state, local, territorial, and tribal Bar Associations to educate attorneys and other legal professionals about anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.
TRUE
What does the B stand for in DEIB?
What is belonging?
Which law required court-ordered public school desegregation?
a. Flemming Rule
b. Brown v. Board of School
c. Multi-Ethnic Placement Act
B. Brown v. Board of Education
Racial disparities in the criminal justice system and Housing Discrimination are examples of
What is systemic racism?
T or F The ABA asks legal professionals to encourage implicit and explicit bias and normalize laws, policies, and practices that devalue Black families, systemic racism, and family separation.
False
Research has found a correlation between poverty and low socioeconomic status and maltreatment
What is a cause of disproportionality?
T or F MEPA(Multi-Ethnic Placement Act) prohibited racial placement preferences requested on behalf of the child or birth parents.
The MEPA only allowed foster and adoptive parents to retain the right to express a racial preference for children.
A process of reflection and lifelong inquiry, involves self-awareness of personal and cultural biases as well as awareness and sensitivity to significant cultural issues of others
What is Cultural Humility?
T or F One of the phrases that guides this work and the work of organizations changing the child welfare system is "Nothing About Us, Without Us"
TRUE
What term describes the unequal outcomes of one racial or ethnic group as compared to the outcome for another racial/ethnic group?
What is disparity?
"Unfit" and "Unsuitable" categories were part of which law?
a. Flemming Rule
b. Brown v. Board of School
c. Multi-Ethnic Placement Act
A. The Flemming Rule
The internalization of racist stereotypes, values, images, and ideologies about one’s own racial group.
What is internalized racism?
Who should legal professionals consult, listen to, and be led by?
Black parents, children, and kin with lived experience in child welfare to learn how to support constructive steps to end the legacy of Black family separation under the law
The way a person presents their gender identity to the outside world through their appearance, actions, and demeanor.
What is Gender expression?
What was at least one law that allowed for the separation of Black children from their families?
Allowing enslavers to sell Black children as property and the separation of families to different enslavers
Vagrancy laws criminalized unemployment resulting in children being placed in child welfare
“hiring” “apprentices”