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About Heidi Ombisa Skallet

Heidi Ombisa Skallet, MSW, LISW, was the Outreach Coordinator at CASCW from 2011-2015. She received her Master of Social Work degree in Community Practice & Child Welfare from the University of Minnesota in 2011. Her areas of interest include child welfare systems reform, Indian child welfare, family & economic policy, early childhood policy, and international social work policies & practices.

September 2014

Part 2—Coping with Trauma and the Impact of Insecure Relationships (Child Complex Trauma Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00September 23rd, 2014|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , |

Child Complex Trauma & Good Outcomes Blog Series by Dr. Jane Gilgun The purpose of this blog series is to describe complex trauma, to show the importance of secure relationships, and to show factors associated with good social service outcomes when children have experienced complex trauma. Case materials bring the issues to life. Last week [...]

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Part 1—What is Complex Trauma? (Child Complex Trauma Guest Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00September 16th, 2014|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , |

Child Complex Trauma & Good Outcomes Blog Series by Dr. Jane Gilgun Children who experience trauma often are subject to complex trauma, which is a series of difficult life events that interfere with attachment relationships and that threaten healthy development in a range of domains, including emotional, cognitive, sexual, social, and physical1. Children learn to [...]

Child Complex Trauma & Good Outcomes Guest Series

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00September 9th, 2014|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , |

Over the next few weeks, we will feature guest posts from Dr. Jane Gilgun, Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Dr. Gilgun’s research interests include how individuals (including children) overcome adversity, how violent behavior develops, and what violence means to perpetrators. Dr. Gilgun has developed several resources for the Center for [...]

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Introducing our new blog, Featured@CASCW!

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00September 2nd, 2014|Categories: Featured@CASCW|

The new academic year at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work begins today. A few CASCW staff members (myself included) have kindergarteners going to school for the very first time over the next two weeks, so we can relate to the "first day" experiences of our new and returning IV-E child welfare MSW [...]

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August 2014

Oregon’s New Foster Children’s Bill of Rights

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00August 20th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , , |

Screenshot of the new poster outlining Oregon's Foster Children's Bill of Rights. Source of the screenshot: Oregon DHS Oregon's 2013 Legislature passed a law requiring Oregon's Department of Human Services to establish the Foster Children's Bill of Rights. While Oregon's DHS already had in place specific rules pertaining to the rights of children and youth [...]

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Child Protection Agency in Australia Introduces Digital Memory Boxes for Kids in Foster Care

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00August 19th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , |

One of the lead child protection agencies in Australia, Barnardos Australia, has introduced a resource for children and youth in foster care: a digital "memory box" called MyStory. The purpose of the digital memory box is to give children and youth in foster care a place to store their photos, report cards, drawings, letters, and [...]

Minnesota Ranks 5th in Overall Well-Being, According to KIDS COUNT

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00August 7th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , |

In July The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) issued the 25th edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book. The KIDS COUNT Data Book takes a look at 16 indicators of well-being from 4 domains in order to observe state and national trends in child well-being. Data used are from 2012, which is the most recent [...]

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May 2014

New law aims to prevent secondhand smoke exposure among children in Minnesota’s foster care system

By |2014-08-12T17:11:24-05:00May 22nd, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , , |

Governor Mark Dayton recently signed into law the omnibus health and human services policy bill. Within this bill are a few statutory changes that essentially add up to "no smoking in foster homes/in the vicinity of children and youth in foster care." Prevention of Secondhand Smoke Exposure for Children in Foster Care The main statutory [...]

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