Child & Family Studies

Disparities Tools

Addressing Health Disparities Is a Place Based Issue

Academic article that discusses an equitable approach to building healthy communities by applying a place-based approach that involves the community and stakeholders.

ACEs Data Brief

Issue Brief summarizing data regarding the prevelance of adverse childhood experienes.

A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

This report is from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's national program, Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, to identify promising interventions to reduce disparities in health care.

Behavioral Health Equity

Website offering resources to address behavioral health disparities involving specific populations such as LGBT, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, AN/AI, and AANHPI.

Blueprint for Using Data to Reduce Disparities/Disproportionalities in Human Services and Behavioral Health Care

This document describes a frmework and process to reduce disparitoes and disproportionalities, using the OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Model.

Building an Organizational Response to Health Disparities

Resource that provides a brief introduction in ways to reduce health disparities through data collection, data analysis, culture of equity, quality of improvement, and interventions.

California Reducing Disparities Project: Strategic Plan to Reduce Mental Health Disparities

This resource details a plan to reduce mental health disparities in California. It includes a discussion of how to build strengths to reduce barriers by: reducing stigma, addressing discrimination, expanding health coverage, improvimh social and environmental conditions, increasing quality of care and enhancing data collection.

Chartbook on Rural Health Care- National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

Chartbook of trends across measure of rural health care focusing on rural health care.

Children's Mental Health - What Every Policymaker Should Know

Resource that provides a brief introduction in ways to reduce health disparities through data collection, data analysis, culture of equity, quality of improvement, and interventions.

Considering Culture: Building the Best Evidence-Based Practices for Children of Color

A primer on children's mental health, including racial, ethnic, and socio economic disparities.

Culturally Competent Care: Some Examples of What Works

Follow up study that looks at what cultural and language policy components work to address health disparities in nine healthcare networks asking community members directly about their perceptions and experiences concerning their care.

Cultural Competency and Workforce Development for Mental Health Professionals

Report regarding barriers to utilization of mental health services and recommendations to alleviate disparities. Focus is on developing a diverse and culturally competent workforce. Contains some Maryland state specific information.

Disparities in child and adolescent mental health and mental health services in the U.S.

Study conducted by the William T Grant Foundation which investigates disparities in mental health and mental health services for minority youth.

Disproportionality Rates for Children of Color in Foster Care

Report on results of a disproprotionality index regarding children in foster care.

Enhancing the Delivery of Health Care: Eliminating Health Disparities through a Culturally & Linguistically Centered Integrated Health Care Approach

This publication is based on research conducted by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and proceedings from the 2011 national consensus meeting titled: Eliminating Behavioral Health Disparities through the Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care Services for Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Those with Limited English Proficiency.

Fresno County Department of Social Services: Confronting Racial Inequities and Disproportionalities to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children & Families

Case study of Fresono County, California's efforts to address racial inequalities and improve outcomes for all children and youth involved in the county's welfare system.

Health Equity Guide for Public Health Practitioners and Partners

Comprehensive look at health equity and social determinants of health.

HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Implementation Progress Report 2011-2014

Action Plan on reducing disparities from the US Department of Health.

Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare, Education, and Mental Health Systems

Paper that investiagtes the impact of racial bias on the child welfare, education, and mental health systems.

Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities

Study that examines existing interventions to improve culturally appropriate health care for people with disabilities, LGBTQ populations, and racial/ethnic minorities.

Increasing Cultural Competence to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities

Set of hands on tools and worksheets for practioners designed to help them address disparities in their communities.

Key Resources for Promoting Equity and Reducing Disparities

Compendium of web based equity focused resources.

Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

This Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 1999) documents the existence of striking disparities for minorities in mental health services and the underlying knowledge base. Racial and ethnic minorities have less access to mental health services than do whites. They are less likely to receive needed care. When they receive care, it is more likely to be poor in quality.

Mental Health Service Utilization Among Black Youth: Psychosocial Determinants in a National Sample

Details a study which investigated the association between demographic factors, socieconomic status, psychiatric disorders, and mental health utilization among black youth.

Multicultural Health Care: A Quality Improvement Guide

A quality improvement framework for healthcare organizations to promote more culturally appropriate care, provide equitable access for individuals with limited english proficiency, and reduce health care disparities.

National Healthcare Disparities Report

National report on healthcare disparities.

Race for Results(2017) - Building a Path to Opportunity for all Children

AECF Policy Report that explores the intersection of children, opportunity, race, and immigration. The data analyzed measures how children are progressing on key milestones by race and ethnicty at the national and state levels.

Race for Results (2014) - Building a Path to Opportunity for all Children

Policy report on how chidlren progress on key milestones across racial and ethnic groups.

Race Matters

This toolkit is designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Access to Care Among Older Adolescents

Fact Sheet discussing disparities in access to healthcare, utilization, and health status among Hispanic, Black, and White adolescennts (age 12-17).

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care for Children and Young Adults: A National Study

Academic article discussing racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care for young adults and children.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Youth Incarceration

Webinar discussing racial and ethnic disparities in youth incarceration.

Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare

Issue brief which explores the prevalance of racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system, as well as providing strategies to address these issues.

Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood

Provides data regarding racial and ethnic disproportionality that begins in early childhood and ways to reduce that.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities Reduction Practice Manual

Manual designed to promote racial and ethnic fairness in the juvenile justice system.

Serving Everyone At the Table: Strategies for Enhancing the Availability of Culturally Competent Mental Health Service- Making Children's Mental Health Services Succesful

This monograph aims to increase awareness of the impact of culture on the availability of mental health services with the goal of improving services for culturally/racially diverse families in ways that reduce mental health disparities.

Strategies to Reduce Racially Disparate Outcomes in Child Welfare

Survey of state and national strategies to promote racial equity among children and families involved in the child welfare system.

Think-Speak-Act Cultural Health- Part 1 Think-Speak-Act Cultural Health- Part 2

Videos - At the 2010 Quality Health Care for Diverse Populations Conference, colleagues were asked to share how they Think, Speak and Act Cultural Health.

Two Lenses, One Goal: Understanding the Psychological and Structural Barriers People of Color Face in the Criminal Justice System

Brief explaining the barriers people of color faced when dealing with criminal justice reform. Recommendations for addressing these barriers are also made.

You Can't Fix What You Don't Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities

The Discipline Disparities Research to Practice Collaborative has released its latest paper in the Discipline Disparities Series entitled, "You Can't Fix What You Don't Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities". The authors highlight how our interactions across racial lines continue to yield differential outcomes in school discipline, with devastating consequences for many youth of color. Instead of avoiding the topic, the paper suggests giving schools specific recommendations for addressing the difficulties in tackling the racial dynamics in disparities in discipline.

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