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Race in Social Services
Children's Institute International (CII) is a private non-profit organization that improves the lives of Los Angeles' most vulnerable children by helping them directly and by strengthening the families and the communities in which they live. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and, therefore, race is not a factor that has any role to play in either recruitment or career planning. Race is also not an eligibility criterion for the organization's service programs that include the key areas of child and family assessment, sexual abuse treatment, domestic violence intervention, family treatment services, therapeutic day care, and long-term foster family care. Thus, it is evident that race has no role to play in CII.
In fact, since CII's objective is to serve families and children all over Los Angeles country, its programs and services do not even specifically target a particular racial...
However, because the need for CII's services is greater among high-need, low-resource communities, it can be said that the organization's programs appear to target the African-American and Hispanic communities. The organization's services may seem skewed towards the African-American and Hispanic communities, but the fact remains that CII is an organization that supports racial diversity. Indeed, this is evident in the racial/ethnic composition of the organization and the complete absence of comments pertaining to racial or ethnicity issues during working hours.
CII is also an organization that makes an effort to stress its racially diverse nature by encouraging it members to be aware of the importance of racial diversity. As such, the organizational culture and composition has ensured that there is no consciousness of racial issues among its members. Perhaps, the only perspective from which it can be said that members of CII are conscious of racial…
References
Children's Institute International Web site. (2004). An Overview of CII; Employment;
Cultural Considerations in Relation to Child Abuse & Family Violence. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2004: http://www.childrensinstitute.org/index.html
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