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.
The Star Tribune editorial supporting the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children, “A start, but press on to prevent child deaths,” (April 2, 2015), should be met with a note of caution: Essentially, the 93 recommendations have substantially changed the emphasis of Child Protection from “well-being to “safety.” In this directive, we have [...]
Join us in congratulating Heather Rosenthal and Mark Wilhelmson, who are the recipients of our first (soon to be) annual Child Welfare Exemplary Service Award. The Child Welfare Exemplary Service Award was developed in early 2015 by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) in order to recognize Minnesota child welfare supervisors and [...]
Race & School Suspensions SeriesWritten by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair Suspensions and Black Children The goal of this blog series is to provide information and encourage discussion of solutions for racial disproportionalities in out-of-school suspensions focusing on Black children and families. Effective responses to this complex issue emerge from an understanding of the underlying [...]
As I look out from my office window in Peters Hall here at the University of Minnesota this sunny spring morning, I find myself in a reflective and contemplative mood, as one is apt to do in times of transition. As many of you may know, and some may not, today is my last day [...]
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare will be hosting this year’s National Title IV-E Roundtable in Bloomington, MN. The National Title IV-E Roundtable is a rare opportunity for child welfare stakeholders to gather and share ideas for education, training, research, and collaboration. Staff and faculty from Title IV-E education and training programs as [...]
We are excited to announce that our 11th issue of CW360º, Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice, is now available online. The intersection of culture and child welfare practice has been considered and conceptualized in a number of ways, from cultural competence and institutional racism to disparity and disproportionality. Most often the discussion around culture is [...]
We at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare are pleased to announce our 16th Annual Spring Child Welfare Conference, Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice. Registration is now open for both on-site and webstream participants. Registration will be available through Friday, April 17, 2015. Details Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Time: 10 AM–4:30 PM [...]
Crossover Youth Series Written by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair In our first blog post, we described crossover youth and why we should be especially concerned about their well being. The goal of this blog post is to describe an innovative intervention to correct the developmental trajectories of youth dually-involved with child welfare and juvenile [...]
