Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation
جيسكا برايس: نحو تغيير نظام رعاية الأطفال، واستبعاد الانتماء العرقي من المعادلة
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.
موظفًا في خدمة رعاية الأطفال.
to a report of child abuse.
عن إساءة معاملة طفل ما.
unexpected, certainly uninvited.
سابق إنذار، بالتأكيد فأنت غير مرحب بك.
in the middle of the room, on the floor.
ملقاة على الأرض وسط الغرفة.
with a couple of ashtrays,
عليها زوج من منافض السجائر،
the kids lie asleep.
through the entire home.
where there's very little food.
كمية قليلة من الطعام.
in the bedroom, on the floor,
النوم، ملقاة على الأرض،
with her infant child.
two things may happen.
and removed from the home,
غير آمن وسيُؤخذون من المنزل،
for a specified period of time.
محددة من الزمن،
provides help and support.
من قبل نظام رعاية الأطفال.
Protective Services worker,
yourself in that home,
your opinion of that family?
did you think the family was?
لتلك الأسرة على قرارك؟
that if those children were white,
إذا كان هؤلاء الأطفال من البِيض،
stays together after that visit.
بعد تلك الزيارة تكون أكبر.
the University of Pennsylvania
have access to more help and more support
تتلقى في المتوسط مساعدة ودعمًا بشكل أكبر
to go through a full investigation.
للبحث والتحقيق الكامل.
if those kids are black,
هؤلاء الأطفال بشرة داكنة،
more likely to be removed,
أقرانهم البيض ب 4 مرات،
of time in foster care,
في دور الرعاية،
a stable foster placement.
an immediate shelter of protection
and traumatic exit from the family.
من الأسرة.
the University of Minnesota
who went through foster care
and internalized issues
بالمشاكل السلوكية وما يصاحبها
while receiving help and support.
والدعم بينما هم مستقرون في أسرهم.
is not uncommon.
غير شائع.
living in low-income housing
almost impossible to keep food,
بالطعام في المنزل بسبب الجرذان،
to have her children taken from her?
أن يُؤخذ أطفالها منها؟
a family court attorney,
in a poor neighborhood,
often unreachable standards
وغالبًا لا يمكن تحقيقها
with very little money.
أطفالهم بمال قليل.
their kids are removed.
سيُسحب منهم أطفالهم أو لا.
on the front lines of child welfare,
الأمامية في رعاية الأطفال،
how my personal values impacted my work.
الشخصية على عملي.
at Florida State University,
الاجتماعي بجامعة ولاية فلوريدا،
and effective child welfare research.
حول أطفال دور الرعاية.
twice as many black kids in foster care,
في دور الرعاية، يشكل ضعف النسبة الطبيعية،
population, 14 percent.
%14.
several reasons why,
something you're not aware of.
about certain groups of people.
in the background
that I want to share.
going into foster care.
ذوي البشرة الداكنة إلى دور الرعاية.
the number of black kids being removed.
الداكنة الذين يُأخذون من أسرهم.
into that community with my team
رفقة فريقي
of blind removal meetings.
عشوائية لأخذ الأطفال من أسرهم.
to a report of child abuse.
إساءة لطفل
must come back to the office
إلى مكتب الرعاية
neighborhood, race,
family strength, relevant history
وتاريخها ذي العلاقة بالأمر
to protect the child.
the committee makes a recommendation,
تقدم اللجنة توصيتها،
a drastic impact in that community.
تأثيرًا جذريًا على ذلك المجتمع.
going into foster care were black.
من الأطفال الذين يذهبون إلى دور الرعاية.
that is down to 21 percent.
انخفض الرقم إلى 21%.
from talking to some of the case workers.
مع بعض موظفي الرعاية:
with the department,
to do things differently."
apartment building,
because it's an emotional field.
لأنه مجال عاطفي.
emotions around this work.
هذا العمل.
all of your stuff at the door
عواطفك وتوجهاتك
of race and neighborhood out of it,
والحي جانبًا عند عملنا في هذه الأمور،
bringing us closer
in foster-care decisions.
باتخاذ القرارت في نظام رعاية الأطفال.
and machine learning
الاصطناعي والتعلم الآلي
to other states.
للأفضل.
of their employees.
لدى موظفيهم.
are driven by ethics and safety.
that focuses on partnering with parents,
يركز على مشاركة الوالدين،
instead of pulling them apart.
بدلًا من أن يعمل على تشتيت شملها.
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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