• Train and educate the agency staff and stakeholders

   about institutional and structural racism and its   

   impact in decision-making policy and practice.
• Train to divert families away from the child welfare

   system whenever safely possible.
• Understand our own racial and cultural biases and

   battle what could be perceived as institutional racism

   on a daily basis.
• Serve to conduct change for practice and policy   

   statewide.
• Increase awareness and sensitivity to

   disproportionality.