RCCW Fayette County

Isabel C. Escobar, PhD Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering Associate Editor, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-7450 University of Kentucky 177 Anderson Tower (FPAT) Lexington, KY 40506-0046 859-257-7990 (Phone) 859-323-1929 (FAX) isabel.escobar@uky.edu

includes recent institutional analysis reports that could be useful for comparative studies, e.g., for Fresno County in California http://www.aspaonline.org/global/pdfs/IA-Fresno-Case-Study-web.pdf

Judicial Benchcard Policy

We could request a coffee gathering to promote the most recent Kids Count Data book

Summarizes well-documented racial disparities that occur in school discipline (esp. suspension, expulsion, and arrest) and impact on educational attainment. Proposes evidence-based practices, restorative justice, and professional development in the areas of cultural and racial equality.

To protect and enhance the legal rights of children in Kentucky and Ohio, the Children's Law Center offers resources on important issues in child welfare, education, and juvenile justice

This book is really useful for introducing young scholars to the ethics of how they interact with people from other cultures - and how to become empathetic

Curtis reads from her book of the same name - for children aged 4-8 See more at http://www.harpercollins.com/9780060753467/is-there-really-a-human-race

What gets said to scholars of color: How it comes across:

In Kentucky, there are active CRPs in the Southern Bluegrass and Jefferson regions of the Department for Community Based Services, as well as a Statewide CRP composed of members from all nine regions. Includes 2013 CRP Annual Report for download

Citizens Review Panels (CRP) are citizen-volunteers who are federally mandataed to conduct an evaluation of their state's child protective services agency; the site includes each state's annual reports training materials and other information

CSSP press release explaining the new report re African American Males in child welfare systems

table of contents for all their publications including these topics: Alliance for Race Equity (5 Documents) Class Action Reform (4 Documents) Institutional Analysis (7 Documents) Jim Casey Youth Opportunities (1 Documents) Community Partnerships for the Protection of Children (32 Documents) Pregnant and Parenting Youth (2 Documents) All Child Welfare Documents (89 Documents)

hosted by the Neighborhood Investment team of the Center for the Study of Social Policy - provides real-time information on how to access and influence key funding opportunities to support strategies to improve results for low-income children and families.

Authors: Oronde Miller, Frank Farrow, Judith Meltzer, Susan Notkin March 2014 Center for the Study of Social Policy

(see page 2) "Dr. Perry presented her analysis and outcomes over a four year period of the social inequalities in school discipline (suspensions) with in Fayette County Public Schools."

here's a full url: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-just-say-no-doesnt-work&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook Research now shows that the D.A.R.E. model doesn't work to prevent drug abuse in youth; characteristics of programs that ARE successful are listed -- "A few clues to D.A.R.E.'s deficiencies come from psychologist Pim Cuijpers of the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction in Utrecht. In a review of 30 studies published in 2002, she attempted to pinpoint the common elements of successful programs. Cuijpers reported that the most effective ones involve substantial amounts of interaction between instructors and students."