Afterword‪.‬

A recent paper that grew out of the growing understanding of the need to coordinate work across the Juvenile Court and Child Welfare Systems, entitled, Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionate in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: A Compendium, indicated there are many different strategies that can be pursued as part of an effort to correct disproportionality. This same article indicated that the strategies could be divided here into five basic types: 1) Increasing Transparency, 2) Reengineering Structures and Procedures, 3) Changing Organizational Culture, 4) Mobilizing Political Leadership, and 5) Partnering in Developing Family and Community Resources. (1) These categories will be used to review the articles in this special issue. Increased transparency