Children's Institute International (CII) is a private non-profit
organization that improves the lives of Los Angeles' most vulnerable
children by helping them directly and by strengthening the families and the
communities in which they live. The organization is an equal opportunity
employer and, therefore, race is not a factor that has any role to play in
either recruitment or career planning. Race is also not an eligibility
criterion for the organization's service programs that include the key
areas of child and family assessment, sexual abuse treatment, domestic
violence intervention, family treatment services, therapeutic day care, and
long-term foster family care. Thus, it is evident that race has no role to
In fact, since CII's objective is to serve families and children all
over Los Angeles country, its programs and services do not even
specifically target a particular racial or ethnic population. However,
because the need for CII's services is greater among high-need, low-
resource communities, it can be said that the organization's programs
appear to target the African-American and Hispanic communities. The
organization's services may seem skewed towards the African-American and
Hispanic communities, but the fact remains that CII is an organization that
supports racial diversity. Indeed, this is evident in the racial/ethnic
composition of the organization and the complete absence of comments
pertaining to racial or ethnicity issues during working hours.
CII is also an organization that makes an effort to stress its
racially diverse nature by encouraging it members to be aware of the
importance of racial diversity. As such, the organizational culture and
composition has ensured that there is no consciousness of racial issues
among its members. Perhaps, the only perspective from which it can be said
that members of CII are conscious of racial issues is, if one ...