Cross-posted from the College of Education and Human Development's News Blog. Registration is now open for the Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate (PACC) program through the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) at the University of Minnesota's School of Social Work. The PACC is geared towards mental health and child welfare professionals in [...]
In addition to Article 3 and Article 17 (Northstar Care for Children), there are other areas within Chapter 108 (the omnibus Health and Human Services finance bill) that are directly applicable to children and families involved in the child welfare system. These are just a few. Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Youth The Safe Harbor [...]
For those of you interested in all things permanency and adoption related, the Child Welfare Information Gateway has some terrific materials. Last week I learned about the Enhancing Permanency For Youth in Out Of Home Care publication. You can download a pdf of this guide at the CWIG website. This guide discusses: The importance of [...]
A couple of weeks ago, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare held its annual spring conference and the subject of this year's conference was the intersection of disabilities and child welfare. One of our speakers was Lupe Ortiz-Tovar, who along with her colleague Clay Fink, presented information on the National Resource Center for [...]
We had a terrific series of guest posts written by MSW students in the SW5905 Permanency in Child Welfare courses this spring. Thank you for thought-provoking blog posts! We hope everyone enjoyed the series.
This guest blog post was written by Amanda Talan. Article: Is there a (transracial) adoption achievement gap? A national longitudinal analysis of adopted children's educational performance A recent article published in Children and Youth Services Review by Elizabeth Raleigh and Grace Kao seeks to determine whether there are differences in educational attainment between adopted and [...]
This guest post was written by Bahjo Mahamud. Phyllis Korkki wrote the article Filling up an Empty Nest, In the New York Times press. It was published in May 14 of 2013. This articles is written to awaken households and the our society that is never too late to adopt children and especially age should [...]
This guest blog post was written by Kristin Struss. Image by Anthony Russo for the New York Times Stories of how children come into people's lives never cease to amaze me. Peter Mercurio's story of how he and his partner found their son and subsequently how their son became of part of their family is [...]