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Book SynopsisBuilding 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, wh
Table of ContentsForward (Joyce M. James) Preface Acknowledgments Contributing Authors Introduction (Alma J. Carten) PART ONE: Building the Infrastructure: Supporting Sustainable Change and Renewal 1. Promoting Organizational and Systemic Change Mary Pender Greene and Paul Levine 2. Incorporating Antiracist Work at Staff and Board Levels Alan Siskind and Todd Schenk 3. Education and Training of a Race-Conscious Workforce Willie Tolliver and Steve Burghardt 4. Creating a Culturally Competent Research Agenda Mo Yee Lee, Xiafei Wang, Yiwen Cao, Chang Liu, and Amy Zaharlick 5. When Does Race Matter? Examining Antiracist Organizational Change Lisa V. Blitz and Mimi Abramovitz PART TWO: Reshaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms 6. Deconstructing White Supremacy Rev. David Billings 7. Theoretical Perspectives for Transformation Jeanne Bertrand Finch 8. Antiracist Approaches for Shaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms Kenneth V. Hardy PART THREE: Systemic Impacts and Special Populations 9. Children, Youth, and Family Serving Systems Gerald P. Mallon and Ruth G. McRoy 10. Systems Serving Ethnically Diverse Older Adults Camille Huggins 11. Barriers to Mental Health and Treatment Among Urban Adolescents and Emerging Adult Males of Color Michael A. Lindsey and Amaris Watson PART FOUR: The Helping Relationship 12. The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Consumer Behaviors Manny J. González 13. Establishing Effective Cross- Cultural Alliances with Diverse Consumer Populations Eileen Klein 14. Unpacking Racism, Poverty, and Trauma's Impact on the School- to- Prison Pipeline Robert Abramovitz and Jessica Mingus PART FIVE: Replicating Best Practices 15. Giving Equal Access to the American Dream to All Kids: The Harlem Children's Zone Anne Williams- Isom 16. A Racial Equity Staff Development Strategy for Public Human Service Organizations Christiana Best- Giacomini, Alexis Howard, and Henry Ilian Closing Thoughts from the Editors Index
