What We Work For

The goal of this project is to share best practices for collecting data about race, ethnicity, and other demographic information including sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE); national origin; language spoken; disability; religion; and tribal affiliation in child welfare agencies nationwide.

Accurate and nuanced data collection is an important step in developing targeted strategies to reduce disparities and ensure young people and families are affirmed in their identities and are served in ways that best meet their needs. This project provides guidance for equitable data practice ranging from how caseworkers and service providers can ask families and young people about their racial and ethnic identities in more accurate, inclusive, and affirming ways, to how system leaders and data administrators can better report and incorporate that information to support them. The Data for Equity and Action Lab is an opportunity to work with a handful of jurisdictions to operationalize best practice and grow collective capacity to leverage data as a tool to advance equity.

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