Why Harm Persists: Retaining Benefits and Avoiding Accountability
Training description
This educational series, hosted by Massachusetts’ Initiative to Reduce Child Neglect, dives deeper into the data, builds shared understanding, and supports consistent, informed decision-making across the initiative.
This session examines why child welfare systems continue practices that produce inequitable outcomes. Participants analyze patterns such as denial, minimization, blame, and redefinition, and how these dynamics protect institutions while increasing trauma for families and burnout for staff.
Presented by: Matthew Kincaid, Founder and CEO, Overcoming Racism
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