It's that time of year again. Spring semester at the School of Social Work means guest blog posts from students enrolled in the SW5905 Permanency in Child Welfare course. Each week starting next week and continuing through to the end of May, we will be publishing blog posts written by students learning about permanency and adoption. [...]
In this Field Notes post, Shavon writes about her field placement working with youth at Family Alternatives, a local foster care and adoption agency. I am a IV-E Child Welfare scholar in the MSW program at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, and I am completing my first field placement at Family Alternatives. Family [...]
Today at noon the Minnesota legislative session reconvened. Did you know that CASCW has an active public policy focus? CASCW's Child Welfare Policy Resources Since 2011 we have been blogging during each Minnesota legislative session, tracking child welfare-related legislation and decoding bill text in order to understand the impact bills may have on child welfare [...]
Minnesota has had an extended foster care policy since October 1, 2010, meaning that youth can elect to remain in foster care beyond age 18 until age 21. Youth can opt for a traditional foster home placement or a supervised independent living setting. Funding for extended foster care benefits primarily comes from county and federal [...]
As part of the Field Notes blog, we will be profiling MSW Title IV-E child welfare students and their field instructors in order to acknowledge the many social work professionals with whom they are working as well as to provide the public with some insight into the content and variety of MSW child welfare field [...]
Source: MN DHS Child Welfare Continuous Improvement Brief 1 A little over a week ago this Star Tribune article reported that Minnesota's high foster care re-entry rate may cause the state to incur a large federal financial penalty for failing to meet the national standard. According to the article, the national standard is 9.9 percent while Minnesota [...]
Hello fellow child welfare advocates and CASCW supporters. My name is Angela Allen and I am thrilled to be the new graduate assistant working in CASCW’s public policy department. I would like to begin by introducing myself and sharing a bit about what’s yet to come in my future blog posts throughout the legislative session. [...]
The intent of Field Notes is to provide a venue for MSW child welfare students to write about their field placement experiences while also providing the public with some insight into what MSW child welfare field placements are like. I am a IV-E scholar this year and am interning at a school as my first [...]
