Moving Toward
Better Outcomes for
All of Michigan’s Children
equity
Report from the Michigan Advisory
Committee on the Overrepresentation
of Children of Color in Child Welfare
Michigan Advisory Committee
on the Overrepresentation of Children of Color
in Child Welfare
Funding provided by:
Annie E. Casey Foundation and The Skillman Foundation
Wanda Mial
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Jacquelyn Moffett
Homes for Black Children
Sylvia Murray
Saginaw Chippewa
Indian Tribe of Michigan
Gale Norman
DHS staff to the Advisors
Linda Parker
Michigan Department of
Civil Rights
Sharon Claytor Peters
Michigan’s Children
Lois Plantefaber
Diarist for the Committee
Karen Rockett
Cassopolis
Kendra M. Suddeth
DHS Board Member
Dr. Doris Rucks
DHS Board Member
Verlie Ruffin
Michigan Federation for
Children & Families
Rep. Rick Shaffer
State Representative
Rev. Randy Cole Sims
South 17th Church of Christ
Gerald K. Smith
Detroit Youth Foundation
Pat Sorenson
Michigan’s Children
Shirley Stancato
New Detroit
Carl Taylor
Michigan State University
Senator Buzz Thomas
State Senator
Alicia Vazquez
Michigan Protection and
Advocacy Services
Phyllis Vroom
Wayne State School of
Social Work
Moses Walker
Burgess Health Alliance
Robert Wertkin
Western Michigan University
School of Social Work
Heaster Wheeler
NAACP
Michael Williams
Orchards Children’s Services
Co Chairs
Carol Goss
CEO and President
The Skillman Foundation
Marianne Udow
Director
Michigan Department
of Human Services
Members
N. Charles Anderson
Detroit Urban League
Beth Arnovits
MI Council on Crime
and Delinquency
Dave Blocker
Office of the Children’s
Ombudsman
Joyce A. Brown
DHS Board Member
Daniel Cowan
Staff to the Advisors
Hon. Bradley Dakota
Keweenaw Bay Tribal
Community
Jerry Dorsey IV
Deputy Wayne County
Prosecutor
Warren C. Evans
Wayne County Sheriff’s Dept.
David Gamlin
New Detroit, Inc.
Sharon Newton Glenn
Foster Parent
Washtenaw County
Shirley Mann Gray
Children’s Hospital
of Michigan
Fred Harris
Staff to the Advisors
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