Decreasing racial disparity in permanency: a conversation with Tatenda Perry
MPLD graduate Tatenda Perry discusses the role that race plays in permanency disparities.
MPLD graduate Tatenda Perry discusses the role that race plays in permanency disparities.
In the years following their graduation from the MPLD program, alumni have spoken nationally, earned promotions, and contributed to change.
“I was struggling for a way to stay in child welfare and feel good about it.”
“As a child welfare professional, I believe that it is my role and responsibility to lift youth’s voices in their permanency planning so that other children do not silently move through life the way that I did as a teenager.”
16 MPLD fellows will learn about transformational leadership, take a closer look at disproportionality in child welfare, and complete an action research project that addresses a challenge in their local child welfare system.
In September, the third cohort of the AdoptUSKids Minority Professional Leadership Development (MPLD) program graduated in a three-day online ceremony.