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CASCW at the Capitol

CASCW at the Capitol, our child welfare policy blog, was developed as a way to disseminate relevant child welfare-related policy information to child welfare practitioners and supervisors.

April 2014

Social Work Day at the Capital is on Monday

By |2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00April 3rd, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , |

Source: Linda Grobman/Flickr Every year, The National Association of Social Workers–Minnesota (NASW-MN) sponsors Social Work Day at the Capital in Minnesota. This year Social Work Day will be on Monday, April 7, 2014, with the theme of "All Minnesotans Matter," keeping in line with last month's Social Work Month theme of "All People Matter." Although [...]

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Making Meaningful Connections to Prevent Child Abuse

By |2014-08-12T16:22:57-05:00April 1st, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , , |

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month Since 1983, April has been designated as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The theme for this year is "Making Meaningful Connections," not only with children and youth but also with families and communities. When we make meaningful connections with children and youth, we provide them with a sense [...]

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March 2014

Smoke-free foster homes in Minnesota

By |2014-08-12T17:10:08-05:00March 21st, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , |

The delete-all amendment was recently posted for the Health & Human Services Policy omnibus bill. Within this amendment, under Article 1: Children and Family Services, there are provisions requiring smoke-free environments in foster homes. First, home studies of prospective foster parents would have to include the capacity of a foster parent to provide a smoke-free [...]

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How a Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Could Impact Minnesota’s LGBTQ Youth in Child Welfare

By |2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 17th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , |

Source: Northfield Patch It was 1973 when homosexuality was de-classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and since then it has become accepted by most professionals in the mental health community that homsexuality is neither a disease nor a conscious choice that a person can alter. However, [...]

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Minimum Wage & Child Welfare

By |2014-08-12T16:18:57-05:00March 10th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , |

One of the most talked about policies to be voted on in the Minnesota Legislature this year is HF92/SF3, the bill to raise the state minimum wage. Minnesota's current minimum wage is one of the lowest in the country, set at $6.15/hour. Under the bill's proposed mandates HF92 would raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hour [...]

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Presidential budget for FY 2015 includes Medicaid project for foster youth

By |2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 7th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , |

On March 4, President Obama released his budget for fiscal year 2015. In sum, the budget allocates $77.1 billion to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is $0.8 billion less than the 2014 enacted level. Child welfare-related highlights of the presidential budget are listed below. Medicaid Demonstration Project for Youth in [...]

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Health & Child Welfare Disparities in Minnesota

By |2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 6th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , |

On February 4th, 2014 the Minnesota Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing met with Dr. Edward Ehlinger, the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), and other members of the community to discuss the health disparities gap that persists in Minnesota and programs that can help alleviate these disparities. (Watch the hearing [...]

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February 2014

The Minnesota legislative session reconvened today

By |2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00February 25th, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: |

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 [...]

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