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.
Learn why culturally competent engagement and support is key to sustaining a pool of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx foster and adoptive families.
“There’s been a shift from screening families out to screening them in…we started looking at what families can do, and working to remove barriers that were preventing people from fostering and adopting.”
“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.”