0208

Disproportionality in Illinois Child Welfare
Nancy Rolock

Examines the persistance of disproportionality over the life of a foster care case. look at child welfare outcomes at several points of intervention: at the point of indicated or founded cases, at the prevalence of placement with kin, and the likelihood of stability while in foster care, and at exiting foster care to permanence. To determine disproportionality, we look at the race/ethnicity of the population at risk of these foster care outcomes and then compare the outcomes for this specific group to the outcomes for the remaining foster children of different races and ethnicities.