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ArticleThe Social service review2014

Under What Conditions Does Caseworker-Caregiver Racial/Ethnic Similarity Matter for Housing Service Provision? An Application of Representative Bureaucracy Theory.

Bowen McBeath, Emmeline Chuang, Alicia Bunger, Jennifer Blakeslee

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Article in The Social service review, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Bowen McBeathPortland State University.
Emmeline ChuangUniversity of California, Los Angeles.
Alicia BungerThe Ohio State University.
Jennifer BlakesleePortland State University.

Funding

Treatment access for families: An application of QCA and regression techniquesR03DA032863 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CHUANG, EMMELINE · 2012 to 2013
$165k
NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA032863
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Abstract

In this article, we examine child welfare caseworkers' housing-related service strategies when they serve culturally similar versus culturally dissimilar clients. Testing hypotheses drawn from representative bureaucracy theory and using data from the second cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, we find that when non-Caucasian caseworkers share the same racial/ethnic background as caregivers, caseworkers use more active strategies to connect caregivers to needed housing services. The relationship between racial/ethnic matching and frontline workers' repertoire of service strategies is most pronounced when the need for housing has been registered formally via referrals and case plans and thus legitimated institutionally. These results reinforce basic tenets of representative bureaucracy theory and provide evidence of the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in the human service workforce. Our findings also highlight the need for research identifying institutional and frontline organizational factors that enhance the quality of service provision.

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caregivercaseworkerchild welfarefrontline practicehousing servicesinstitutionalracial/ethnic disparitiesservice disparities

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PMID25745270
PMCPMC4346321

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