AES/Sibling Project – Blog Post 1 Editor's Note: This blog series is written by Lynette Renner an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Her research focus is family violence including intimate partner violence and child maltreatment. The goal of this blog series is to provide information and encourage discussion of [...]
Crossover Youth Series Written by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair In this third blog post, we will focus on lessons learned by professionals implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) in five Minnesota counties. We interviewed 84 professionals involved in the implementation of the CYPM. They were judges, attorneys, and child welfare and juvenile justice [...]
Today's guest blogger is Kifah Abdi. Megan Twohey of Reuters spent eighteen months investigating the phenomena of the parents of (primarily) internationally adopted children being abandoned after coming to the United States through multiple online services. The first part of this investigation was released by the Reuters by September 9, 2013. In this article [...]
Today is my last day as Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW). For nearly 4 years I've been blogging about child welfare policy and tracking bills going through the Minnesota legislature related to child welfare (and for a brief period, federal bills related to child welfare). I've loved every [...]
Today's guest blogger is Emily Shea. Juli Fraga writes of her experience being adopted and now being a biological mother in her article in The New York Times, “Adopted as a Child, Now a Mother, Finally ‘Lucky’ (February 15, 2015).” She speaks of the incredible relief and joy she feels as, for the first time [...]
Today's guest blogger is Morgan Larson. Kemp, S. P. & Bodonyi, J. M. (2002).Beyond Termination: Length of Stay and Predictors of Permanency for Legally Free Children. Child Welfare, 81(1), 58-86. Description of the article: Kemp and Bodonyi (2002) studied the length of stay and predictors of permanency within a study of 1366 legally free children [...]
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 [...]
Today's guest blogger is Suzanna Maassaro. Finalizing an adoption is commonly regarded by agencies, government systems, and members of society as the ultimate outcome for a child without a permanent home. Many children anticipating adoption experience a waiting process lasting many years. A great amount of effort is put into pairing a child with adoptive [...]