Part One: Building the Infrastructure: Supporting Sustainable Change and Renewal ; 1. Promoting Organizational and Systemic Change ; 2. Incorporating Antiracist Work at Staff and Board Levels ; 3. Education and Training of a Race-. Conscious Workforce ; 4. Creating a Culturally Competent Research Agenda ; 5. When Does Race Matter? Examining Antiracist Organizational Change -- Part Two: Reshaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms ; 6. Deconstructing White Supremacy ; 7. Theoretical Perspectives for Transformation ; 8. Antiracist Approaches for Shaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms -- Part Three: Systemic Impacts and Special Populations ; 9. Children, Youth, and Family Serving Systems ; 10. Systems Serving Ethnically Diverse Older Adults -- 11. Barriers to Mental Health and Treatment among Urban Adolescent and Emerging Adult Males of Color -- Part Four: The Helping Relationship ; 12. The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Consumer Behaviors ; 13. Establishing effective cross-cultural alliances with diverse consumer populations ; 14. Unpacking recism, poverty, and trauma's impact on the school-to-prison pipeline -- Part five: Replicating best practices ; 15. Giving equal access to the American dream to ALL kids: the Harlem children's zone ; 16. A racial equity staff development strategy for Public Human Service Organizations.
Summary
Within the context of the nation's changing demographic and cultural landscape, this one of a kind book brings together a national roster of leading practitioners and scholars who recommend innovative strategies for reducing racial and ethnic disparities that are pervasive across all fields of practice in the health and human services.