OUR LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE GOALS

The BACW Child Welfare Leadership Institute will recruit African American supervisors and front line staff (investigators and case managers) employed in public and private agencies on the southside of Chicago. The project will address structural racism using data-driven approaches to identify key areas of racial disparities in child welfare outcomes. Such disparities often result in the disruption of families - children placed in foster care.  The outcomes will be examined using a historical framework and an African-centered lens.  The Institute would develop an African-centered curriculum that addresses preventive and proactive child welfare strategies aimed at family preservation, and decrease the overrepresentation of children of color languishing in the foster care system. The African centered competency-based training will consist of modules, webinars and networking with leading African American child welfare experts to inform existing practices through a race informed lens.  Participants will be matched with African American child welfare mentors to discuss and implement race-informed strategies that promotes permanency, family’s strengths, and child safety.

Be a part of the Black Administrators in Child Welfare of Illinois Institute – advancing the self-efficacy that African American leaders require when engaging with dominant culture institutions such as Child Welfare.