Below are some of the accomplishments of the disproportionality work that has occurred in Louisville  KY (Jefferson Service Region) since the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) began their collaboration with Casey Family Programs in September 2005:

• The Jefferson Region has implemented a county wide public awareness campaign on racial disproportionality in child welfare.
• Undoing Racism workshops are delivered monthly in our county by the People’s Institute.
• Kentucky DCBS is working with the People’s Institute on developing an Undoing Racism type of training for KY-that would replace our current “cultural diversity” training.
• Our schools of Social Work in KY are in ongoing meetings with our Cabinet to employ the principles of anti-racist work in their curriculums for child welfare. Kentucky DCBS is using the leverage of our training programs/contracts within these universities to help make this happen.
• One local school of Social Work delivered 2 courses on disproportionality in child welfare for the community.
• Kentucky DCBS has composed a statewide strategic plan to make disproportionality an office under the supervision of a Cabinet Undersecretary in our Central Office.
• There is a local disproportionality team that meets monthly in our county who oversees all disproportionality work in our county. This team is composed of many of the key community partners in Jefferson’s child welfare system.
• The Jefferson Region developed a relationship with a local advertising agency who designs messaging for our disproportionality work. The owner of the agency even attended an Undoing Racism WS so she could better understand the work.
• All of Jefferson Region’s plans/work goals have been based on giving staff and community partners a racial equity lens to use in their work in child welfare.
• The Jefferson Region now requires most of our in home service providers to report their outcomes by race. Their contracts require them to help us reach our goal about lowering our number of minority children in care.
• The Jefferson Region is planning a community wide forum this October about race and child welfare. We are using Annie E. Casey Family to Family funds to present this forum. 
• The Jefferson Region DCBS now asks interview questions about race and poverty for all new entry level Social Worker positions.

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