Gender Equality Month Commemorated every March, Gender Equality Month brings awareness to gender biases and challenges. Historically, gender inequality has been framed as a binary, but gender inequalities have effects across the gender spectrum. Gender Equality Month is an opportunity to notice and strategize on continued disruption of gender bias, discrimination, and inequity within personal…
In approaching this blog and this celebration of Social Work Month I found myself facing a dichotomy: a chasm or divide between two opposing positions. Honestly, I find myself facing one often. Some are imposed by life. Some self-imposed. Dichotomies, nevertheless. This month I found myself at the nexus of a familiar one. As a…
Women’s History Month has been celebrated annually since Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 in 1987. In a society rooted in patriarchy, women have had to overcome many barriers to excel in a variety of roles inside and outside of the home. Using numerous strategies from the civil rights movement, Women’s History Month brings awareness of…
Director of Equity Michele Harper will present at this year’s Administration for Children and Families’ National Convening on Building a Human Services System. The convening will take place March 28−29 in Hyattsville, MD, and is both in person and virtual. To learn more and register, visit the convening’s website.
What Is the Equity & Feedback Fellowship? The goal of the Equity & Feedback Fellowship is to identify a diverse group of 10 leaders in the nonprofit sector with an interest and commitment to listening and acting on feedback to advance equity in their work. The Equity & Feedback Fellowship is a one-year fellowship that…
Despite a wide spectrum of opinions about the way child protection services (CPS) systems should operate, communities, researchers, and practitioners almost always agree on one point. CPS systems impact Black families, Indigenous families, and families of color far more often than they do White families. Disproportionality, while present at all points in the system,…
A recent Evident Change study found that parents who completed Family Visit Coaching (FVC) services had fewer incidences of substantiated abuse or neglect after reunification compared to a control group. The analysis showed that FVC was effective at reducing substantiations after reunification. Previous FVC research indicated that parents improved their parenting skills during FVC services…
I’ve been writing about incarceration and criminalization for nearly two decades. Over the past several years, I have witnessed mass incarceration enter everyday conversations among people who have never been directly impacted. While there is increasing and wider-spread recognition that incarceration is a travesty—pre-pandemic, the U.S. had approximately 2.3 million people in jails and prisons—understandings…
Evident Change is grieving the loss of Debra Illingworth Greene, who passed away on December 14. Debra was an unfailingly optimistic and kind person as well as a generous colleague. She had an expansive capacity for gratitude and delight, and for sharing the same with others. Her sunny demeanor was complemented by serious grit and…
We didn’t set out to make an immigration film. In 2010, while working on a different project, we met 8-year-old Luis, a quirky kid from a Mayan village in Guatemala. We’ve kept in touch with him ever since, watching as this shy child grew into a bubbly and opinionated teenager. Then in late 2017, at…
