ONE VISION ONE VOICE - Children's Aid Society

ONE VISION ONE VOICECHANGING THE ONTARIO CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM TO BETTER SERVE AFRICAN CANADIANSPRACTICE FRAMEWORK PART 1: RESEARCH REPORTS eptember 2016 ONE VISION ONE VOICE : Changing the Ontario Child Welfare System to Better Serve African Canadians Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preamble EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PART 1: INTRODUCTION .. 1 Purpose .. 1 Project Rationale .. 2 Process for Developing the Practice Framework .. 5 Values and Principles .. 7 PART 2: CONTEXT .. 9 Definitions and Key Concepts .. 9 African Canadian Population in Ontario .. 13 Population Overview .. 13 Population Growth .. 14 Diversity .. 15 PART 3: LITERATURE REVIEW .. 19 Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare .. 19 Systemic Forces that Bring Families of African Descent into Contact with Child Welfare .. 22 Actual rates of child maltreatment .. 22 Funding formula .. 25 Biases of mandated referrers.

After much deliberation, we came to consensus on “One Vision One Voice” as the title of this project. One Vision, because we recognized that the ability to initiate and sustain meaningful transformative change would require a clear, compelling, and collective vision. One Voice, because we believed that our power to speak truth, name injustice,

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