Race, Community & Child Welfare Initiative
& Disproportionate Minority Contact,
Fayette County, Kentucky
Leadership
RCCW Fayette County/
DMC Committee Chair
​Rebecca DiLoreto, J.D.
Executive Director of the Institute for Compassion in Justice,
member of Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice's
Subcommittee for Equity and Justice for All Youth (SEJAY),
and Adjunct Professor, University of KY College of Law
RCCW/DMC Fayette County, KY Mission Statement
To highlight and eliminate racial disparities within the Fayette County Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, public school education and other child and family serving systems with the goal of achieving sustainable results.
ABOUT US
Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)
The DMC Committee of Fayette County is a community-based organization that supports the Department of Juvenile Justice staff of Fayette County in addressing their use of Title II federal funding in this area. Federal guidelines require that states address specific delinquency prevention and system improvement efforts designed to reduce, without establishing or requiring numerical standards or quotas, the disproportionate number of juvenile numbers of minority groups who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. The Subcommittee on Equity and Justice for All Youth (SEJAY) is the designated DMC subcommittee for the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB) statewide. The SEJAY is responsible for advising and making recommendations to the JJAB on DMC, including causes and remedies.
RCCW Fayette County
RCCW Fayette County is a community advisory board of anti-racist advocates who create and promote equity for all in Fayette County. We have created an ongoing, productive and supportive dialogue for people to discuss issues of race. By cultivating, encouraging and supporting this ongoing dialogue, the community has more opportunities to be involved in solving the issues of racial disproportionality and disparate outcomes for families and children in Fayette County. The RCCW Fayette County does this by:
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Creating awareness of our community's problem of racism and its impact on children
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Communicating the long term impacts of racial disproportionality and disparate outcomes on the Fayette County community
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Expanding the coalition of anti-racist advocates and practitioners
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Funding and implementing anti-racist training and education
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Monitoring measurable outcomes of children in all related systems in Fayette County
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Implementing evidence based best practices
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Effecting public policy at the local and state level