...History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System Victoria Chatman BSHS 301 July 2, 2012 Pamela Hardy History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System The United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. It comes as no surprise that out of the 20% of poverty stricken children in America, African American, and Latino children exceed 40%. In fact, children of color are overrepresented in the foster care system and are the least likely to be reunited with their families. This overrepresentation is driven by, racial discrimination, social oppression, negative social conditions, and economic injustice. But this is not to exclude racism within the child welfare system in itself. The child welfare specialists are encouraged to respond with familiarity and compassion to individuals from a wide diversity of cultural backgrounds. “… Social welfare systems do not arise in a vacuum; they stem from the customs, statutes, and practices of the past. Therefore, one cannot understand current efforts to help the needy without first comprehending the foundations on which they were built.” --Walter I. Trattner History of African Americans Social welfare developed from both communal and secluded services in the United States and North America. Most social welfare policy experts take the place before 1932 and the formation of governmentally supported programs. Even the most exclusive services were provided under segregated policies...
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...History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare La'Trice Moore BSHS/ Introduction to Human Service October 10, 2011 Anie Sklar History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare (Dettlaff & Rycraft, Nov/) Authors of this journal paint a very vivid picture for the child welfare system. Due to the recent increase in the Latino population the issue of maltreatment has also risen. Maltreatment in the Latino Population has risen from 10% in 1995 to 17.4% in 2005 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service [USDHHS], 1997, 2000, 2007). Originators here focused on the need for child welfare agencies to provide the appropriate services for these families. Studies showed that it was “imperative for child welfare workers to understand the impact of immigration and acculturation in order to implement competent, community based service for this population”. In an attempt to inform child welfare workers, many networks customized a plan in order to educate workers on how to assist in an effective manner with this population. Findings were positive. Workers admitted to having known little about the cultural background of Latino clients. However after educating child welfare workers culturally, this allowed for worker to better understand the Latino population, as well as how to implement a treatment that will be effective for this population. (Lundgren, Schilling, & Peloquin, 2005) Authors here are evaluating the use MM as an effective treatment with parent(s)...
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...Promotion Among Black or African American Population [Your Name] Grand Canyon University: Family-Centered Health Promotion(NRS-429V) January 10, 2016 Health Promotion Among Black or African American Population The Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2015) notes that “Starting in 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requires federal agencies to use a minimum of five race categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.” Each minority group differs in health status and disparities and health promotion. In this paper the writer will focus on a specific minority group, the Black or African Americans, and will compare the minority group’s current health status to the national average. Further the author will discuss which health disparities exist in this particular minority group and what health promotion means to them and then will discuss an a approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention that is the most effective given the unique needs of the minority group with an explanation of why it might be the most effective approach. The Black or African Americans make up 15.2% of the total United States population and consists of people of African American, Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean decent. It is the second largest minority population. The current health status of this minority group is continuing to get worse. Although...
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... | |De jure segregation |Segregation that is imposed by law. | |Pluralism |A state in which people of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same overall social | | |standing. | |Assimilation |The process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from the dominant majority | | |population. | Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: • Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? The White race has been the majority of the population throughout most of U.S. history. The reason for this is that many immigrants came from Europe and began forming the colonies in what is now called the United...
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...Health Promotion Among Diverse Populations: Understanding the Challenges Faced by the Native Hawaiian Population Kristen L. Gallagher Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V March 7, 2015 There are many diverse cultural groups living in the world today. The United States is no exception, with the U.S. Census bureau reporting that as of 2010, more than 36% of the U.S. population identified themselves as members of a minority group (Hixson, Hepler & Kim, 2012). While many people face challenges in access to healthcare, members of minority populations face even greater barriers. In an effort to combat some of these difficulties, the Department of Health & Human Services established the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Healthy People 2020 is an evidence based plan designed to improve the health of our country’s people by reducing preventable health diseases (“About Healthy People”, 2010). The people native to the Hawaiian Islands face roadblocks to healthcare that are uncommon in the rest of the country, and the Healthy People 2020 action plan faces unusual considerations in Hawaii that are not concerns on the mainland (“Hawaii’s Healthy People”, 2012). Hawaii has long been thought of as paradise, with its temperate climate, beautiful beaches and the culture of its native people. While these visions of Hawaii may be true, Hawaii also suffers from exorbitant costs of living, geographically limited healthcare, and the dilution of a culture in which native Hawaiian people...
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...Diversity: Historical Worksheet Throughout most of U.S. history, in most locations, what race has been in the majority? What is the most common ancestral background of most members of this group? The most majority of the population of the United States is the white race, the reason for this is that many immigrants came from Europe and formed colonies in what is now called the United States. The most common background of white Americans is namely German, English, Irish, Scandinavian, Polish, Dutch and Norwegian. It is also a fact that many people of European ancestry also have a small amount of African or African American DNA. Most people who identify themselves as white, have a mixture of either African descent or Native American too. What are some of the larger racial minorities in U. S. history? What have been the common backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become significant or notable minority group? The two larger minority groups in U.S. history are Black and Asian Americans. The Hispanics are also on a steady increase too. The Black race is about 13% of the United States population. The Asian Americans make up about 4.5% of the United States population. Black people are primarily from Africans who were brought to America as slaves. Between the early 1600s and mid-1800s, since 1970’s there has been a growing population of blacks from Haiti, Jamaica and Barbados. Black people have been the major minority racial group since the early 1900s. Asian Americans share...
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... |Segregation is the physical and social separation of some category of population. | |De jure segregation |De jure segregation is segregation that is required by law. | |Pluralism |Pluralism is a state in which racial and ethnic, though distinct, have equal social standing. | |Assimilation |Assimilation is the process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns of the dominant | | |majority population. | Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: • Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? In U.S. history the majority of most races have been non-Hispanic European descent. Of this majority, the largest percentage claims ancestry traced back to Germany. The second and third largest groups reportedly are from Ireland and England. While most of these groups would be considered to be white in today’s world, a vast majority of these races were not considered to be white when they came to the United States due to their different accents and cultural behaviors. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When...
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...by the dominant group. | De jure segregation | Segregation that is imposed by law. | Pluralism | Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another’s cultures, allowing minorities to express their own culture without experiencing prejudice or hostility. | Assimilation | The process by which a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group. | Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: * Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? Throughout most of U.S. history White Americans has been the majority in most locations. According to the U.S. census Bureau in 2010 72% of Whites share the U.S. population. What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? The common ancestral backgrounds of most members of this group are people of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. * What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? Some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history are Black Americans compromising nearly 13% of the population and Hispanic/Latinos who compromises 15% of the population. What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? * In what ways have laws...
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...Provide citations for all the sources you use. • Throughout most of U.S. history, in most locations, what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? The most majority of the population of the United States is the white race, the reason for this is that many immigrants came from Europe and formed colonies in what is now called the United States. They are the majority due to their numbers and social standing. The most common ancestral background of most members of this group is European. The ancestors of the white Americans came to the United States to forge new opportunities. There is also ancestral background for white American’s that come from the German, English, Irish, Scandinavian, Polish, Dutch and Norwegian. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities throughout U.S. history have been African American and Irish American. The black population in America began at the same time as the white population, however the African Americans were brought from Africa to the United States during the slave trade. They were brought to the United States involuntarily and were unwillingly taken from their home. African Americans became a significant minority group in in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation...
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...of U.S. history, in most locations, what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? Throughout most of U.S. history, the majority race in most locations has been white. Mainly on the east coast where all of the European settlers arrived. Throughout the western part of the country was mainly American Indian and Mexican races. However, they were more spread out over a larger territory as where the white races were more compacted. The majority of the white population in American history came from the western part of Europe (United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, etc.). * What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history has to be Black or African Americans, Mexican, Native American, and Chinese. Each racial minorities’ ancestral backgrounds are, Africa, Mexico, America, and China. In my understanding, African Americans became a significant or notable minority group in 1928 when last state to end slavery in United States (Mrlincolnandfreedom.org, 2013). Mexicans have gained their minority group between 1990 and 2000, nearly doubling in size. Native Americans has always been in minority group since they were the first to arrive or lived in United States. Chinese have become a significant or notable minority group when...
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...The United States has always been the “melting pot” of various racial and ethnic groups. In spite of the sides of our history where each group experienced prejudice and discrimination on different levels past and present, our nation is still rich with cultural diversity. From this I have learned a lot over the last nine weeks about my culture, other cultures, and the possible future if all of us come together to become a more pluralistic society. I began to understand the classification of subordinate groups (or minority groups) and how it ties into labeling. In spite of the generalization of minority groups there are other sub-groups within a minority group. For example, although there are Columbians, Puerto Ricans, Argentinians, Mexicans, and more, the designated majority group classifies these different groups as Hispanic or Latinos. In a way this type of classification denies their different cultures. Granted, there a lot of Hispanics that speak Spanish, but there are several different dialects within, just like with American English. Having a few friends who has Spanish as their primary language, I found that there are more than one way to ask one's name. There is the traditional way that is taught in classrooms across the country – Como se llama – and there are informal ways of asking one's name based on one's cultural background – an associate of mine asks "Cual es tu nombre" whereas asks "Tu Nombre?". In addition to learning this, I also learned about identifying the...
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...Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Women and minorities can be found in many policing agencies across the United States. Unfortunately the history of policing in the United States portrays how hard it was for women and minorities to become police officers. Additionally history also shows how the minorities and women rose up to earn an equal opportunity to represent their communities as police officers. An All White Male Club Police agencies in earlier years lack several elements that most present day police agencies have. In history most police agencies lack both ethnic and gender diversity (Grant, 2008). As the 1960’s and 1970’s pass through, many equal opportunity and equal rights movements occurred, which opened up opportunities for women and minorities. Legislation was passed such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act which helped minorities fight employment discrimination by policing agencies (Grant, 2008). Eventually Affirmative action was born, which made policing agencies overlook ethnic and gender criteria, and hire personal based on their performance and qualifications. Their Changing Role With an equal opportunity of becoming police officers, many women and minorities need to adjust to their new roles. Women in today’s policing agencies currently answer more domestic abuse calls because they have been statistically better at handling those situations then male police officers (Grant, 2008). Policewomen also tend to hold more roles in community...
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...Pluralism A state in which people of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same over all social standing. Assimilation The process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from the dominant majority population. Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: • Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? Throughout most of U.S. history the white race has been the majority. This race is majority because of the social standards they have not just because of the population. The white race was the first settlers in the new land. As known, the most common ancestral background of most members of this group is European. Europeans came to this land for new life opportunities. They were able to come together and form their own country and boundaries because they broke ties off with their European rulers. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? The white race, which is made up of both Hispanic Americans and the Non-Hispanic is the larger racial minorities. Hispanic Americans make up 85% of the population and Non-Hispanics make 79%. White people are categorized as people who have very light skin pigmentation. • In what ways have laws been...
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...the following questions in 100 to 250 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • Throughout most of U.S. history, in most locations, what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? Throughout most of U.S. history, in most locations, Caucasian (European descent) has been in the majority. The common ancestral background of most members of this group is European. The 2010 United States Census estimated that 72% of individuals who live in America are Caucasian American, aking up the largest share of the U.S. racial population (Jenkins, 2013). The vast majority of the more than three hundred millino people who currently live in the United States are decendants from European immigrants who arrived within the last four hundred years. The majority of Caucasian individuals living in the United States have ancestral lines originating from Germany, Poland, France, Italy, and Britain (Jenkins, 2013). • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history include Black (African descent), Asian, and Hispanic and Latino individuals; these are often referred to as “minority majorities”. The common ancestral background of African Americans is of African descent. The common ancestral background of Hispanic...
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... Throughout most of U.S. history, in most locations, what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? According to "The Changing Racial And Ethnic Composition Of The Us Population" In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the classification by race expanded to include the measurement of “mulattos”—persons of mixed black and white ancestry—and the “blood quantum” (percent of white ancestry) of American Indians. By 1890, the census racial classification reflected a growing preoccupation with identifying persons with slightest hint of African ancestry, adding categories for “quadroon” (persons with one-fourth black ancestry) and “octoroon” (persons with one-eighth or less black ancestry). In 1930, Mexicans were added to the growing list of “nonwhites.” Fearing the move as an effort to stigmatize (and possibly deny naturalization to) Mexican Americans by labeling them a nonwhite racial group, the Mexican American population (and the Mexican government) strongly protested the change, and the racial category was soon disavowed by the director of the Census Bureau What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities throughout U.S. history have been Native American, African American, Hispanic...
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