child safety

May 2016

There’s No Place Like Home

By |2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Today's Guest Blogger is Ann Rajkowski. The Mallon, Aledort & Ferrera (2002) article entitled There’s No Place Like Home: Achieving Safety, Permanency and Well-being for Lesbian and Gay Adolescents in Out-of-Home Settings discusses an exploratory study conducted on youth residing in two gay-affirming social service agencies, one in New York City and one in Los [...]

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March 2016

The Child Exchange

By |2016-12-01T19:32:52-06:00March 2nd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Today's guest blogger is Holly Gilbert. In 2013 Reuters did an investigation into a phenomenon known as “Re-homing” and published it in an article titled The Child Exchange.  Many of the children involved in this re-homing were children who were “hard to place” children in the foster care system, were more likely to have higher [...]

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October 2015

A Title IV-E Graduate’s Courage Lead to Major Child Protection Reform in Pennsylvania

By |2015-10-27T10:23:47-05:00October 27th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , |

Author: Helen Cahalane, Ph.D., ACSW, LCSW Child Welfare Education and Research Programs, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work While originating from a tragic constellation of individual deviance, exploitation of trust and gaps in system responsibility, the high profile cases of child abuse in Pennsylvania increased public awareness of child maltreatment and a re-examination of [...]

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April 2015

Final Task Force Recommendations: Two Track Child Protection Response System

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 24th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , |

The update for this week on the final recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children is on the potential changes to what is currently known as Family Assessment. If you are reading this post, you may already be familiar with the two-track response system that currently makes up Minnesota's child protection [...]

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Final Task Force Recommendations: Screening

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 17th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , |

Throughout the year we have been following the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children from its creation through the debates and now to the final report and recommendations that were released in March. All of the recommendations have an impact on either statute, practice, training, the social service information system, the Department of [...]

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O The Harm that Good People Do: When a Guiding Principle in Child Welfare is Re-Arranged from ‘Well-being’ to ‘Safety’

By |2015-04-13T12:03:45-05:00April 13th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , |

The Star Tribune editorial supporting the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children, “A start, but press on to prevent child deaths,” (April 2, 2015), should be met with a note of caution: Essentially, the 93 recommendations have substantially changed the emphasis of Child Protection from “well-being to “safety.” In this directive, we have [...]

March 2015

Governor Dayton signs HF 8 into law, which implements two child protection task force recommendations

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 20th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , |

On Tuesday, March 17, Governor Mark Dayton signed into law House File 8, a bill that implements two recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children. The new law is effective immediately. In his press release on this action, Governor Dayton said that he has dedicated an additional $52.5 million for child [...]

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The Family Assessment Workgroup’s Proposed Final Recommendations & Key Discussion Points

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 11th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , |

In preparation for this Friday's meeting of the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children, I'd like to highlight each workgroup's proposed final recommendations (based on the February 27 Task Force meeting). On Friday the Task Force will meet to finalize the final recommendations. This post will focus specifically on the Family Assessment/Adequacy of [...]

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