Educational Series: 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, led by Matthew Kincaid of Overcoming Racism, 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.