Featured@CASCW features blog posts from CASCW staff on news and and other updates, as well as guest bloggers on research updates and perspectives from the field.
Interested in submitting a guest blog post to Featured@CASCW? Email the blog editor, Stacy Gehringer, at gehr0086@umn.edu for our guest blogger policy and guidelines.
By Liz Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part five of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School of Social Work faculty member [...]
By Young Ji Yoon, MSW with Liz Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part four of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School [...]
By Young Ji Yoon, MSW with Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part three of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School [...]
By Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part two of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School of Social Work faculty member [...]
By Liz Lightfoot, PhD The following is part one of a five part weekly blog series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School of Social Work [...]
Authors: Minhae Cho, Young Ji Yoon, Ndilimeke Nashandi, Dr. Priscilla Gibson, and Dr. Wendy Haight Out-of-school suspension (OSS) is a temporary, complete exclusion from school for responding to students’ misbehaviors up to ten school days. Many public schools persist in using suspensions as a standard practice even though they are largely ineffective in deterring these [...]
Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This information series includes three blog posts and two practice notes. The goal of this series is to provide information and encourage discussion around children’s exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), specifically within the child welfare system. The purpose of this final blog post is to provide [...]
Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This is part two of the three-part blog series on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) exposure in child welfare. In the first issue of Practice Notes, Intimate Partner Violence in Child Welfare we defined exposure to IPV to range from directly observing the violence, to hearing and/or being [...]