How can the child welfare system collect and use data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to ensure safe and affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, caregivers, and family members? Join Angela Weeks, D.B.A., director of the National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (the National SOGIE Center), and Elliott Hinkle, B.A., P.S.S., national young adult consultant at the Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Center for States. In this fourth episode, Angela Weeks talks with Kamora Dawson, CNP, Lemon Pepper, and Jessie Fullenkamp, LMSW, of the Ruth Ellis Center. They discuss their statewide effort to collect SOGIE data with the Michigan Children’s Services Administration, how they grappled with confidentiality, and the top challenges staff identified. This podcast is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates in collaboration with the National SOGIE Center on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number 47QRAA20D0008. Resources Glossary: www.sogiecenter.org/media/ssw/institute/sogie-center/QIC-LGBTQ2S-SOGIE-Glossary.pdf National SOGIE Center: www.sogiecenter.org Ruth Ellis Center: www.ruthelliscenter.org Michigan SOGIE Data Collection Rollout infographic: https://www.sogiecenter.org/media/ssw/institute/sogie-center/Michigan-SOGIE-Data-Collection-Rollout-Graphic-508.pdf The Trevor Project: www.thetrevorproject.org 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: www.988lifeline.org

How can the child welfare system collect and use data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to ensure safe and affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, caregivers, and family members? Join Angela Weeks, D.B.A., director of the National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (the National SOGIE Center), and Elliott Hinkle, B.A., P.S.S., national young adult consultant at the Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Center for States. In this third episode, Angela Weeks talks with Shauna Hines-Lucadamo, M.A., and Ellen Kitzerow of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Department of Human Services. They describe their decade long process to collect SOGIE data and how they used data dashboards to help change the way their workforce thought about SOGIE data collection. This podcast is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates in collaboration with the National SOGIE Center on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number 47QRAA20D0008. Resources Glossary: www.sogiecenter.org/media/ssw/institute/sogie-center/QIC-LGBTQ2S-SOGIE-Glossary.pdf National SOGIE Center: www.sogiecenter.org Center for the Study of Social Policy: https://cssp.org

How can the child welfare system collect and use data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to ensure safe and affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, caregivers, and family members? Join Angela Weeks, D.B.A., director of the National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (the National SOGIE Center), and Elliott Hinkle, B.A., P.S.S., national young adult consultant at the Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Center for States. In this second episode, Angela Weeks talks with Jennifer Croessman, M.S.S.A., L.I.S.W., and Kori Sewell of the Department of Children and Family Services of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. They discuss the county’s efforts to safely and effectively collect SOGIE data from young people and lessons they learned along the way. This podcast is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates in collaboration with the National SOGIE Center on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number 47QRAA20D0008. Resources Glossary: www.sogiecenter.org/media/ssw/institute/sogie-center/QIC-LGBTQ2S-SOGIE-Glossary.pdf National SOGIE Center: www.sogiecenter.org The Trevor Project: www.thetrevorproject.org

How can the child welfare system collect and use data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to ensure safe and affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, caregivers, and family members? Join Angela Weeks, D.B.A., director of the National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (the National SOGIE Center), and Elliott Hinkle, B.A., P.S.S., national young adult consultant at the Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Center for States. In this first episode, Elliott Hinkle talks with Angela Weeks and Sonia Emerson, a consultant to the National SOGIE Center on racial equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and child welfare. They discuss what SOGIE data is and why it’s important, particularly to young people involved in the child welfare system. This podcast is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates in collaboration with the National SOGIE Center on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number 47QRAA20D0008. Resources Glossary: www.sogiecenter.org/media/ssw/institute/sogie-center/QIC-LGBTQ2S-SOGIE-Glossary.pdf National SOGIE Center: www.sogiecenter.org Capacity Building Center for States: https://capacity.childwelfare.gov/states 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: www.988lifeline.org

How can child welfare programs advance racial equity through evaluation? This podcast follows Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Ph.D., M.S.W., senior research associate and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at James Bell Associates, as she talks with experts in racial and ethnic equity, disparity, and disproportionality in child welfare and other human service systems. Join them as they explore approaches and methods to apply an equity framework in the evaluation of child welfare programs and practices. In this fourth episode, Dr. Atukpawu-Tipton talks with Jessica Pryce, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of the Florida Institute for Child Welfare at Florida State University. Dr. Pryce draws on her experience with child welfare research in highlighting family resiliency, focusing on equity to address gaps in service access and delivery, increasing diversity in research teams, and involving individuals and communities with lived experience in child welfare in the co-creation of research and evaluation. This podcast is especially relevant for Children’s Bureau child welfare discretionary grantees in planning and implementing evaluations of their funded projects. It is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number HHSP233201500133I.

How can child welfare programs advance racial equity through evaluation? This podcast follows Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Ph.D., M.S.W., senior research associate and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at James Bell Associates, as she talks with experts in racial and ethnic equity, disparity, and disproportionality in child welfare and other human service systems. Join them as they explore approaches and methods to apply an equity framework in the evaluation of child welfare programs and practices. In this third episode, Dr. Atukpawu-Tipton talks with Alan Dettlaff, Ph.D., dean and inaugural Maconda Brown O’Connor Endowed Chair of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston. Through Dr. Dettlaff’s extensive work in addressing the impacts of structural and institutional racism on children of color in child welfare, he shares his thoughts on engaging families that have experienced fear and trauma in child welfare research and evaluation, valuing and understanding qualitative data, and elevating the voices of families in the research process. This podcast is especially relevant for Children’s Bureau child welfare discretionary grantees in planning and implementing evaluations of their funded projects. It is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number HHSP233201500133I.

How can child welfare programs advance racial equity through evaluation? This podcast follows Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Ph.D., M.S.W., senior research associate and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at James Bell Associates, as she talks with experts in racial and ethnic equity, disparity, and disproportionality in child welfare and other human service systems. Join them as they explore approaches and methods to apply an equity framework in the evaluation of child welfare programs and practices. In this second episode, Dr. Atukpawu-Tipton talks with Rita Cameron Wedding, Ph.D., professor of Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. Since 2005, Dr. Cameron Wedding has used her curriculum Implicit Bias: Impact on Decision-Making to train judges, public defenders, and practitioners in child welfare, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and education throughout the United States. She shares examples from her experience on topics including benefits and barriers to incorporating an equity perspective in evaluation, the role of implicit bias, and ways to avoid perpetuating stigma in language and research dissemination through collaboration and context. This podcast is especially relevant for Children’s Bureau child welfare discretionary grantees in planning and implementing evaluations of their funded projects. It is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number HHSP233201500133I.

How can child welfare programs advance racial equity through evaluation? This podcast follows Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Ph.D., M.S.W., senior research associate and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at James Bell Associates, as she talks with experts in racial and ethnic equity, disparity, and disproportionality in child welfare and other human service systems. Join them as they explore approaches and methods to apply an equity framework in the evaluation of child welfare programs and practices. In this first episode, Dr. Atukpawu-Tipton talks with her JBA colleague Tess Abrahamson-Richards, M.P.H., a senior research associate specializing in tribal evaluation and a member of the Spokane Tribe in Washington State. Ms. Abrahamson-Richards draws on her extensive experience to share lessons learned in conducting evaluations involving Native communities. She discusses the importance of bringing cultural humility, partnering with communities throughout the entire evaluation process, and including American Indian/Alaska Native as a demographic category in data sets. This podcast is especially relevant for Children’s Bureau child welfare discretionary grantees in planning and implementing evaluations of their funded projects. It is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number HHSP233201500133I.