. >> and now from, marian harris, social worker from the university of washington to, sits down to discuss the treatment of children of color in the welfare system. >> the name of my book is "racial disproportionality in child welfare". nationally, there are 400,000 children on any given day in the child welfare system in this country, black children, approximately over 100,000 children in the child welfare system. native american, probably around 8802 children. and again, these children are overrepresented in the system. why did i do the book? again, i have been concerned at the time i wrote the book and still concerned about the overrepresentation of children of color in the child welfare system. not only do they come into the system at higher rates, they tend to receive a poor quality of services. once they are in the system, they definitely exit the system more slowly and these are some issues that you to concern me today. let's start by talking about how children come into the system. there is usually an allegation of child abuse or neglect and a call comes in to cps. when i say cps t

. >> and now from, marian harris, social worker from the university of washington to, sits down to discuss the treatment of children of color in the welfare system. >> the name of my book is "racial disproportionality in child welfare". nationally, there are 400,000 children on any given day in the child welfare system in this country, black