Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation
ジェシカ・プライス: 児童福祉を改革するために、人種への偏見をなくそう
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.
あなたは児童保護サービスの職員で
to a report of child abuse.
その家を訪問するところです
unexpected, certainly uninvited.
明らかに歓迎されない中で押しかけると
in the middle of the room, on the floor.
床にひかれたマットレスです
with a couple of ashtrays,
いくつかの灰皿と
the kids lie asleep.
それほど遠くないところにあります
through the entire home.
任務の一部です
where there's very little food.
食べ物はほとんどありません
in the bedroom, on the floor,
マットレスがあることに気づきます
with her infant child.
使っているのです
two things may happen.
2つの選択肢があります
and removed from the home,
家から引き離して
for a specified period of time.
州の施設で保護のもとに置くか
provides help and support.
支援と援助を受けるのどちらかです
Protective Services worker,
いつも見てきました
ひどい家もありました
yourself in that home,
想像してください
関心があるんです
何に基づくのでしょう?
your opinion of that family?
何が影響を与えるのでしょう?
did you think the family was?
どんなものだと思いましたか?
that if those children were white,
もしそれが白人の家庭の場合
stays together after that visit.
留まる可能性が高いということです
the University of Pennsylvania
研究によると
have access to more help and more support
児童福祉制度による支援と援助を
to go through a full investigation.
傾向にあります
if those kids are black,
more likely to be removed,
家族から引き離される確率は高く
of time in foster care,
a stable foster placement.
一層難しくなります
an immediate shelter of protection
置かれている子供を 当面の間
and traumatic exit from the family.
混乱と傷跡を残すものです
the University of Minnesota
who went through foster care
and internalized issues
支援と援助を受けながら生活する子に比べて
while receiving help and support.
抱える傾向にあります
is not uncommon.
山ほどあります
living in low-income housing
almost impossible to keep food,
家に食べ物は置いておけません
to have her children taken from her?
しまうべきなのでしょうか?
a family court attorney,
エマ・ケッタリンガムは
in a poor neighborhood,
often unreachable standards
不当 かつ 到底届き得ない基準が
with very little money.
their kids are removed.
影響を与えるのです
on the front lines of child welfare,
最前線にいた2年間に
how my personal values impacted my work.
影響を与えるかを直接的に理解しました
at Florida State University,
社会福祉の担当として
and effective child welfare research.
児童福祉研究を集めています
twice as many black kids in foster care,
子供のうち 黒人の割合は
population, 14 percent.
2倍にもなっています
several reasons why,
あるのですが
お話ししようと思います
something you're not aware of.
という意味です
誰もが持つ
about certain groups of people.
彼らに対する態度のことです
in the background
私たちが何かを決めるたびに
入り込んでいるのです
that I want to share.
ご紹介しましょう
going into foster care.
里親と暮らしています
ナッソー郡という
the number of black kids being removed.
黒人の子供の数を減らすことができました
into that community with my team
この地域社会を訪問して
of blind removal meetings.
行なわれているのを目にしました
to a report of child abuse.
児童虐待の通告を受けると
引き離される前に
must come back to the office
オフィスに戻ってきて
neighborhood, race,
消されます
family strength, relevant history
家族の強み 関係する過去の出来事と
to protect the child.
the committee makes a recommendation,
委員会は勧告するのですが
知ることはありません
a drastic impact in that community.
絶大な効果をもたらしました
going into foster care were black.
57パーセントが黒人でしたが
that is down to 21 percent.
21パーセントにまで下がりました
from talking to some of the case workers.
話を聞いて学んだことがあります
with the department,
福祉サービス側に残されていると
試みていても
to do things differently."
ネガティブに見る人が多いのです」
apartment building,
アパート名や 地域や
考えてしまいます」
because it's an emotional field.
とても主観的になります
emotions around this work.
行う人はいません
all of your stuff at the door
この仕事をするのは
of race and neighborhood out of it,
主観的な見方を避けましょう
変わるかもしれません」
bringing us closer
暗黙の偏見を解消できそうです
in foster-care decisions.
and machine learning
to other states.
見つけ出すことです
of their employees.
職員を啓蒙する責任を負わせ
are driven by ethics and safety.
責任を負うことができます
that focuses on partnering with parents,
親と協力しながら
児童福祉制度を
instead of pulling them apart.
一緒に作り上げていきましょう
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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