Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation
Jessica Pryce: Pour optimiser la protection des enfants, sortons l'appartenance raciale de l'équation.
Jessica Pryce creates strategies to reduce the impact of racial bias in child protective services. Full bio
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a Child Protective Services worker.
pour la protection de l'enfance
to a report of child abuse.
un cas de maltraitance.
unexpected, certainly uninvited.
sans être attendu, ni bienvenu.
in the middle of the room, on the floor.
milieu de la pièce, à même le sol.
with a couple of ashtrays,
the kids lie asleep.
through the entire home.
where there's very little food.
où il n'y a que peu de nourriture.
in the bedroom, on the floor,
sur le sol de la chambre
with her infant child.
two things may happen.
deux possibilités.
and removed from the home,
ils sont retirés de leur famille
for a specified period of time.
pour un temps donné.
auprès de leur famille
provides help and support.
alors aide et soutien.
Protective Services worker,
de ces situations.
yourself in that home,
your opinion of that family?
did you think the family was?
that if those children were white,
stays together after that visit.
dans leur famille.
the University of Pennsylvania
have access to more help and more support
d'aide et de soutien des services sociaux
to go through a full investigation.
soumises à une enquête sociale.
if those kids are black,
more likely to be removed,
de risques d'être placés,
of time in foster care,
en famille d'accueil,
a stable foster placement.
leur trouver un placement stable.
an immediate shelter of protection
que pour mettre à l'abri
and traumatic exit from the family.
un traumatisme pour la famille.
the University of Minnesota
who went through foster care
and internalized issues
while receiving help and support.
aidée et soutenue.
is not uncommon.
living in low-income housing
almost impossible to keep food,
le stockage d'aliments,
to have her children taken from her?
ses enfants lui soient retirés ?
a family court attorney,
Emma Ketteringham,
in a poor neighborhood,
dans un quartier pauvre,
often unreachable standards
injustes et inaccessibles
with very little money.
influent également
their kids are removed.
de leurs enfants.
on the front lines of child welfare,
à la protection de l'enfance.
how my personal values impacted my work.
valeurs influençaient mon travail.
at Florida State University,
travail social de l'Université de Floride
and effective child welfare research.
et efficaces en protection de l'enfance.
twice as many black kids in foster care,
plus d'enfants noirs en foyer,
population, 14 percent.
que 14 % de la population générale.
several reasons why,
en particulier :
something you're not aware of.
n'avez pas conscience.
about certain groups of people.
de certaines personnes.
in the background
se cachent derrière
that I want to share.
à vous proposer.
going into foster care.
sont placés en foyer.
le Comté de Nassau,
the number of black kids being removed.
d'enfants noirs retirés à leur famille.
into that community with my team
cette communauté
of blind removal meetings.
réunions de placement aveugles.
to a report of child abuse.
signalement d'enfant en danger.
must come back to the office
neighborhood, race,
l'environnement, la race,
family strength, relevant history
forces de la famille, son histoire,
to protect the child.
à protéger les enfants.
the committee makes a recommendation,
émet une recommandation
ethnique de la famille.
a drastic impact in that community.
drastique sur cette communauté.
going into foster care were black.
placés étaient noirs.
that is down to 21 percent.
from talking to some of the case workers.
de ces travailleurs sociaux.
connue de nos services,
with the department,
to do things differently."
apartment building,
d'un cas issu d'une cité
because it's an emotional field.
subjective, elle relève de l'émotionnel.
emotions around this work.
forcément des émotions.
all of your stuff at the door
devant la porte
of race and neighborhood out of it,
l'ethnie et de l'environnement,
bringing us closer
semblent se rapprocher
in foster-care decisions.
implicite lors de la prise de décision.
and machine learning
l'intelligence artificielle
to other states.
dans les autres États.
la protection de l'enfance,
of their employees.
de leurs agents.
are driven by ethics and safety.
l'éthique et la sécurité.
that focuses on partnering with parents,
l'enfance qui s'associe aux parents,
la pauvreté comme un échec.
à construire un système
instead of pulling them apart.
au lieu de les déchirer.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Pryce - Child advocate, social scientistJessica Pryce creates strategies to reduce the impact of racial bias in child protective services.
Why you should listen
Jessica Pryce curates child welfare research that focuses on answering legislative questions and informing social policy. She has conducted research at the state and national level while publishing and presenting her work nationally and internationally. Her research has focused on the training and education of the workforce, racial disparity in child welfare decisions, and the disproportionality in our country's foster care system. Pryce is executive director of a research center at Florida State University
After earning her PhD at Howard University and working in New York state for two years, Pryce was appointed in 2016 the new Executive Director of the Florida Institute for Child Welfare, where she mobilizes social scientists devoted to improving the intractable issues that have negatively impacted the lives of vulnerable children and their families. She is currently engaged in a multi-year project focused on illuminating the experiences of black parents as they matriculate through child protective services. That same year, Pryce published an article illuminating strategies for the promotion of racial equity in a community on Long Island, NY.
In 2018, she was selected as a TED Resident. During the residency, she worked to disseminate strategies to child welfare agencies with the goal of their adopting Blind Removals, a racial equity strategy in child protection. Understanding the negative impact of removing children from their parents unnecessarily, Pryce has also written on the lingering, historical trauma of sanctioned family separations in the US.
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