Transportation Equity and Engaged Scholarship: Making the Connections
By Jonathan London, with assistance from Libby O’Sullivan and Chris Benner How can university teaching and research be made more relevant to the struggles of low-income communities and communities of color? How can university students apply and complement their “book…
REP Published Literature
In an effort to make our published articles more accessible to our readers, we now have a REP Published Literature page, linked in the “Orientation” portion of our main page. The page includes the list of articles (with links to…
… and we’re back!
You may have noticed that our site has been down for several days. We’ve been experiencing issues with our servers so we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We hope the issues are now resolved, but if…
E-Newsletter 6.1: Race, Poverty, and Foster Care
Welcome to the first installment of the Race Equity Project’s e-newsletter for 2011: Race, Poverty, and Foster Care. In this e-newsletter, we present three articles. The first article advocates for the use of public notice hearings to put agencies on…
Using Public Notice Hearings To Compel Child Welfare To Provide Family Support To Aid Fragile Families of Color
By Cynthia Robbins, Edgar S. Cahn, and Keri A. Nash Introduction[1] Something is wrong when a system ostensibly constructed to provide for the welfare of vulnerable children offers interventions that consistently inure to the detriment of those in its care. …
Kinnections for Kids
By Tracy Hancock and Janice Montgomery The number and rate of African American children entering foster care in Sacramento County, approximately three times the percentage of the African American child population, is a compelling statement of need in our child…
