ABSTRACT It has been 47 years since Billingsley and Giovannoni penned a pointed analysis of child welfare’s failure of Black children the United States. This conceptual paper asserts that this failure will continue unless we take seriously the role that structural inequality plays in Black families’ lives. It updates Billingsley and Giovannoni’s paper by shifting the focus from children to families, grounding Black family well-being in a developmental model and constructing a racial equity approach to family resilience. The paper begins by establishing an empirical justification for focusing on Black families. This review of data on Black families further reveals early childhood to be a particular priority for intervention. The emerging model centers on Black families’ ability to navigate and negotiate for their needs. The model components are malleable factors that work together to form a “supportive state” and resilient pathway. Implications for the model’s compatibility with clinical family resilience models, two-generation approaches, and family-centered policymaking are discussed.

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领导种族平等：在幼儿时期促进黑人家庭的复原力

摘要自Billingsley和Giovannoni对美国黑人儿童的儿童福利失败进行有针对性的分析以来，已有47年的历史了。该概念文件断言，除非我们认真对待结构性不平等在黑人家庭生活中扮演的角色，否则这种失败将继续下去。它更新了Billingsley和Giovannoni的论文，将重点从儿童转移到家庭，在发展模型中建立了黑人家庭的幸福感，并构建了种族平等方法来提高家庭的适应能力。本文首先建立了针对黑人家庭的经验依据。对黑人家庭数据的回顾进一步表明，幼儿期是干预的特别优先事项。新兴的模式以黑人家庭的导航和协商能力为中心。模型组件是可延展的因素，它们共同构成“支撑状态”和弹性路径。讨论了该模型与临床家庭适应力模型，两代方法以及以家庭为中心的政策制定之间的兼容性。