Yvonne Gilchrist
Consultant |
Yvonne Gilchrist has over 30 years directing child welfare and human service agencies. She has served as the Director of the Batimore City Department of Social Servics and as the Director of the Washington DC and Fulton County Georgia Departments of Human Services. She is currently working as a consultant with the Black Administrators in Child Welfare organization.
Presentations from Facing Race 2012
Shattered Families: Racial Justice and Prospects for Systemic Change
The child welfare system is tasked with protecting children from harm. Yet the system targets families of color in unfair ways. Hundreds of thousands of children in foster care are there because the child welfare system feeds off of the effects of poverty and of structural racism embedded in other systems like criminal justice and immigration and inequity embedded in tribal relationships to U.S. institutions. This panel will explore child welfare practices in communities of color, solutions for more equitable policy and strategies for protecting families.
Speakers: Jovonna Frieson, Yvonne Gilchrist, Seth Wessler