Child Welfare Information Gateway
The Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more. The Child Welfare Information Gateway library is among the Nation’s largest collections of child welfare-related resources. The library catalog includes peer-reviewed journal articles, evaluation reports, Children’s Bureau grant materials, books, research studies, and more. Visit the Information Gateway library catalog to search for resources and browse a wide range of literature spanning the continuum of child welfare topics.

American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
This article considers how racism and poverty should influence the way clinicians understand their duties as mandatory reporters of child abuse. The authors discuss one case in particular but offer recommendations for similar cases.

The Center for States
The Center for States is committed to promoting racial equity, recognizing intersectionality, and reducing disparities for children, youth, and families of color in child welfare.  To support child welfare agencies in advancing equity, the Center for States offers products and events that encourage ongoing conversations, share promising practices, and promote action steps. The Center partners with states and jurisdictions in examining data, assessing organizational needs, and developing strategies to address disproportionality and disparities among populations that have been marginalized. By pairing racial equity principles with change and implementation approaches, the Center helps child welfare audiences take intentional steps toward more equitable programs and practices.

Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
Child welfare agencies are increasingly evaluating their systems to identify where and how racial and ethnic disproportionalities and disparities are occurring. They are also searching for best practices using an antiracist approach. This bulletin provides a brief overview of the problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system.

The American Bar Association (ABA)
This article was adapted from a presentation on Bias in Child Welfare given at an ABA conference in 2019. The authors define explicit and implicit bias and how the latter can drive decisions in child welfare cases. 

The Five Stages of DEI Maturity
In this article, the author describes the five stages of DEI corporate maturity: aware, compliant, tactical, integrated, and sustainable. Knowing where you are on your DEI journey can help you ask the right questions and move in the right direction. This article is a distillation of a larger book on the subject by Ella F. Washington

Model Corporate DEI Policies
Here are links to corporate DEI policies for two companies of different sizes: Doordash and McKinsey.  They may be used as models for companies seeking to develop policies in this area.  Both are examples of global companies that have incorporated meaningful DEI measures into their regular business practices.

World Economic Forum Reports
The Forum has produced two briefing papers on model corporate practices in the DEI space. The first paper discusses the economic rationale and values case for pursuing racial and ethnic equity. The second paper argues that the full value of AI cannot be realized without an inclusive approach that considers the needs of the entire population.

Survey on Diversity Attitudes
Since 2015, Taft Communications and the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University have conducted a New Jersey State of Diversity survey examining the diversity-related attitudes of employees at New Jersey corporations. The survey has found large divides based on race and political affiliation. Information about the 2023 survey may be found at this link. Information about the 2022 survey may be found here.

Rutgers University Libraries.  Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Medical Education.
A comprehensive online collection of articles, monographs, books, videos, toolkits, and other resources relating to topics including Race and Medicine, Health Equity, Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, Teaching Tools, and Cultural Competency. 

Association of American Medical Colleges
The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools, November 2022. This report presents the aggregated findings from the 101 medical schools that completed the Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity (DICE) Inventory. The report provides a baseline illustration on the current state of activities, policies, or procedures pertaining to DEI in medical schools and expands on reported practices to aid all medical schools in bolstering their DEI efforts moving forward.

American Medical Association (AMA) and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice. Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts, 2021.
This guide is designed to provide guidance and promote “a deeper understanding of equity-focused, person-first language and why it matters” in clinical care and public health …. Like science, language and understanding evolve over time, and this guide is not intended to be a definitive and all-encompassing instruction manual. Instead, it was created to give a fresh perspective about the language we commonly use, and to recognize the harmful effects of dominant narratives in medicine.  Better understanding about language and dominant narratives can help ensure that we are indeed centering care around the lived experience of patients and communities without reinforcing labels, objectification, stigmatization and marginalization. There are three sections in the guide:  Part 1:  Health Equity Language; Part 2: Why Narratives Matter; and Part 3: Glossary of Key Terms.                                                                                                           

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Health Equity Team of Family Medicine for America’s Health and inspired by the Starfield II Health Equity Summit.  Health Equity Curricular Toolkit, August 2019.
This toolkit provides a structured curricular tool to facilitate exploration of some of the most pressing questions around social determinants of health, vulnerable populations, and economics and policy. The toolkit also provides resources to promote skill-building to confront drivers of persistent and pervasive inequities.  This toolkit is intended for clinical and public health learners and primary care faculty who would like an opportunity to further explore this area that often was not intentionally and adequately prioritized in past medical school and residency curricula. The Guidebook to the Health Equity Curricular Toolkit includes a description of the socio-ecologic framework; the modular design; facilitation strategies; a glossary of definitions and health equity resources; and a worksheet to promote real-time application of an equity lens. This is accompanied by 14 modules including an introductory prerequisite 2-part module. Three short videos were also developed to assist with use of the toolkit.

Family Practice Management – How to Identify, Understand, and Unlearn Implicit Bias in Patient Care (2019)
The author defines the concept of implicit bias in health care and recommends three general strategies (educate, expose, and approach) for reducing bias.  Key points include the following: 1) “Implicit bias is the unconscious collection of stereotypes and attitudes that we develop toward certain groups of people, which can affect our patient relationships and care decisions”; 2) “You can overcome implicit bias by first discovering your blind spots and then actively working to dismiss stereotypes and attitudes that affect your interactions:; and 3) “While individual action is helpful, organizations and institutions must also work to eliminate systemic problems.”  Eight evidence-based strategies to combat implicit biases are summarized by the IMPLICIT mnemonic:                               I – Introspection; M – Mindfulness; P – Perspective-taking; L – Learn to slow down; I – Individuation;            C– Check your messaging; I – Institutionalize fairness; T – Take two.

American Academy of Family Physicians – The EveryONE Project: Implicit Bias Resources
This Implicit Bias Training Guide includes training materials, videos, facilitator and participant resources for instruction on negative effect of bias on patients.

Journal of the American Medical Association – Mandated Implicit Bias Training for Health Professionals – A Step Toward Equity in Health Care (2022)
This article reviewed the status of mandated implicit bias training in selected states as of August 2022.  The authors note that to achieve the goals of bias reduction and equitable care, widespread training will require appropriate time, resources, and support. In particular, the need is emphasized for 1)” focusing training on specific clinical issues and populations;” 2) “advancing the evidence base on effective elements of implicit bias training;” 3) “establishing qualifications for trainers,” and 4) “funding mandated training.”

Transcultural Psychiatry – Respecting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Pluralism and Human Rights in Civil Society

”This paper examines the history, rationale, and successes of DEI frameworks in health care and psychiatry, discusses legitimate critiques, documents the scope and consequences of the current anti-DEI movement in the United States and other jurisdictions, and draws comparisons with Canadian and United Kingdom contexts.” The scientific grounding and moral significance for mental health of the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion are revisited. Rather than dismantling DEI, the authors emphasize the need for a “renewed commitment to the values of DEI as well as those of dignity, empathy, and integrity, as ways to advance social justice and pluralistic civil society.”