In this episode Dr Jessica Pryce, chats about inclusive, equitable and effective child welfare. After earning her PhD at Harvard University and working in New York state for two years, Dr Jessica Pryce was appointed in 2016 the new Executive Director of the Florida Institute for Child Welfare. Her research has focused on the training and education of the workforce, racial disparity in child welfare decisions, and the disproportionality in the United States foster care system.
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Find out more about Dr Pryce at https://jessicaprycephd.com/
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Show Credits:
Host: Michelle Stacpoole, Adopt Change
Guests: Dr Jessica Pryce
Audio Producer: Fernanda Dedic, Adopt Change
Executive Producer: Lily Allsep, Adopt Change
Adopt Change acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded and edited this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Dr Jessica Pryce For the past 10 years, Dr. Pryce has been involved at multiple angles of child welfare (direct practice, teaching + training & policy and research). She has published on child welfare related topics, such as, training and education, racial disparity and anti-poverty practices. She has presented her research at 30+ conferences both nationally and internationally. She is the author of several op-eds focused on racial disparity and effective strategies to impact racial disproportionality within child welfare. Her TED Talk on Implicit Racial Bias in Decision Making has since been viewed over 1.2 million times.