These words from Paul Wellstone are written in 11 languages in the main hall of Neighborhood House’s Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building. Frewoine Nerea (left), Ann Rajkowski MSW student (center) and Asha Mohamud (right)Currently 2 of our MSW Child Welfare scholars are working with and learning more about families coming to the [...]
State Capitol Building, St. Paul, MN. Image source: Patrick O'Leary/University of Minnesota On November 5 and November 14th, the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children met for the 3rd and 4th time at the State Office Building in St. Paul. Several of our current MSW IV-E Child Welfare students attended and a few [...]
MSW IV-E student Krysta Sather is Driven to Discover "ways I can be an ally for children, so they can stay safe and keep being a kid." Krysta is a first year student interning at Washburn Center for Children. Below is a reflection of their work with a young child who is in the permanency [...]
Photo by romfarer/johanne ådnegard on flickr MSW IV-E Child Welfare students write a field journal throughout the course of their internships. In these journal entries, students reflect on their growth, experiences, strengths, challenges, difficulties, successes, supervision, learning, insights, etc. from the field placement. Below is a recent field reflection from a current IV-E student interning [...]
On Monday, October 13th, as Minneapolis recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, all first year and advanced standing IV-E MSW students participated in the first of two Experiential Learning Days in the Native Community (ELNA). Experiential Learning is a pedagogical approach to education that moves learning from a classroom setting into the broader community for a direct [...]
Last week, all U of MN Twin Cities MSW 2nd year and Advanced Standing IV-E students attended 3 days of the DHS Child Welfare Foundation Training. Prior to this training, they also completed approximately 20 hours of on-line training modules. These trainings covered a wide variety of relevant topics such as family systems, child development, [...]
Hannah Burton (left) and Becky Montgomery (right) In this post, Hannah aligns her field experience with the University of Minnesota's Driven to Discover campaign. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student Hannah Burton—Planning and Evaluation Intern Field Instructor Becky Montgomery, MSW—CPS Planner Field Site Ramsey County Community Human Services Department "In my field placement this year, [...]
On Tuesday, Sept 2nd, classes officially began at the University of Minnesota. On that day, the 2014-15 MSW Child Welfare Hennepin County Cohort began their orientation for their field placements at the Health and Human Services building in downtown Minneapolis. This year, we have 7 IV-E MSW students interning within Hennepin County in the following [...]
