{"id":41742,"date":"2015-07-12T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41742"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:58:09","slug":"who-am-i-who-do-you-think-i-am-stability-of-racialethnic-self-identification-among-youth-in-foster-care-and-concordance-with-agency-categorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41742","title":{"rendered":"Who am I? Who do you think I am? Stability of racial\/ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care and concordance with agency categorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.childyouth.2015.06.011\" target=\"_blank\">Who am I? Who do you think I am? Stability of racial\/ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care and concordance with agency categorization<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/01907409\" target=\"_blank\">Children and Youth Services Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/01907409\/56\/supp\/C\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 56, September 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 61\u201367<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.childyouth.2015.06.011\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.childyouth.2015.06.011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jdsc@pdx.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jessica Schmidt<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shanti Dubey<\/strong><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry Dalton<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Oregon Department of Human Services, Children, Adults and Families, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>May Nelson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Portland Public Schools, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Junghee Lee<\/strong><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Molly Oberweiser Kennedy<\/strong><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connie Kim-Gervey<\/strong><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurie Powers<\/strong><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Geenen<\/strong><br \/>\nRegional Research Institute for Human Services<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Examined stability of racial\/ethnic self-identification among adolescents in foster care<\/li>\n<li>Compared youth self-report with agency categorizations of race\/ethnicity<\/li>\n<li>Found especially high rates of agency-youth discordance for certain groups of youth<\/li>\n<li>Child welfare system more likely to classify youth as White compared to school and youth themselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it has been well documented that racial and ethnic disparities exist for children of color in child welfare, the accuracy of the race and ethnicity information collected by agencies has not been examined, nor has the concordance of this information with youth self-report. This article addresses a major gap in the literature by examining 1) the racial and ethnic self-identification of youth in foster care, and the rate of agreement with child welfare and school categorizations; 2) the level of concordance between different agencies (school and child welfare); and 3) the stability of racial and ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care over time. Results reveal that almost 1 in 5 youth change their racial identification over a one-year period, high rates of discordance exist between the youth self-report of Native American, Hispanic and multiracial youth and how agencies categorize them, and a greater tendency for the child welfare system to classify a youth as White, as compared to school and youth themselves. Information from the study could be used to guide agencies towards a more youth-centered and flexible approach in regard to identifying, reporting and affirming youth&#8217;s evolving racial and ethnic identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&amp;context=socwork_fac\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? Who do you think I am? Stability of racial\/ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care and concordance with agency categorization Children and Youth Services Review Volume 56, September 2015 pages 61\u201367 DOI: 10.1016\/j.childyouth.2015.06.011 Jessica Schmidt Regional Research Institute for Human Services Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Shanti Dubey Regional Research Institute for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,4481,20],"tags":[20417,20423,20416,20421,20419,20420,20422,5509,17054,20415,20418],"class_list":["post-41742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-children-and-youth-services-review","tag-connie-kim-gervey","tag-jessica-schmidt","tag-junghee-lee","tag-larry-dalton","tag-may-nelson","tag-molly-oberweiser-kennedy","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-sarah-geenen","tag-shanti-dubey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44974,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742\/revisions\/44974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}