Description
Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences and original research. Together, they offer a range of strategies with a high potential for creating the critical mass for change that is essential to transforming the nation's health and human services systems.Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services closes the gap in the literature examining the role of interpersonal bias, structural racism, and institutional racism that diminish service access and serve as the root cause for the persistence of disparate racial and ethnic outcomes observed in the nation's health and human services systems. The one-of-a-kind text is especially relevant today as population trends are dramatically changing the nation's demographic and cultural landscape, while funds for the health and human services diminish and demands for culturally relevant evidence-based interventions increase. The book is an invaluable resource for service providers and educational institutions that play a central role in the education and preparation of the health and human service workforce.
Table of Contents
Forward (Joyce M. James)PrefaceAcknowledgmentsContributing AuthorsIntroduction (Alma J. Carten)PART ONE: Building the Infrastructure: Supporting Sustainable Change and Renewal1. Promoting Organizational and Systemic ChangeMary Pender Greene and Paul Levine2. Incorporating Antiracist Work at Staff and Board LevelsAlan Siskind and Todd Schenk3. Education and Training of a Race-Conscious WorkforceWillie Tolliver and Steve Burghardt4. Creating a Culturally Competent Research AgendaMo Yee Lee, Xiafei Wang, Yiwen Cao, Chang Liu, and Amy Zaharlick5. When Does Race Matter? Examining Antiracist Organizational ChangeLisa V. Blitz and Mimi AbramovitzPART TWO: Reshaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms6. Deconstructing White SupremacyRev. David Billings7. Theoretical Perspectives for TransformationJeanne Bertrand Finch8. Antiracist Approaches for Shaping Theoretical and Practice ParadigmsKenneth V. HardyPART THREE: Systemic Impacts and Special Populations9. Children, Youth, and Family Serving SystemsGerald P. Mallon and Ruth G. McRoy10. Systems Serving Ethnically Diverse Older AdultsCamille Huggins11. Barriers to Mental Health and Treatment Among Urban Adolescents and Emerging Adult Males of ColorMichael A. Lindsey and Amaris WatsonPART FOUR: The Helping Relationship12. The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Consumer BehaviorsManny J. González13. Establishing Effective Cross- Cultural Alliances with Diverse Consumer PopulationsEileen Klein14. Unpacking Racism, Poverty, and Trauma's Impact on the School- to- Prison PipelineRobert Abramovitz and Jessica MingusPART FIVE: Replicating Best Practices15. Giving Equal Access to the American Dream to All Kids: The Harlem Children's ZoneAnne Williams- Isom16. A Racial Equity Staff Development Strategy for Public Human Service OrganizationsChristiana Best- Giacomini, Alexis Howard, and Henry IlianClosing Thoughts from the EditorsIndex
