Participants attend the PACC certificate program as part of a cohort, building and strengthening a network of professionals. Locations and times vary by year. The PACC program consists of: thirteen in-class sessions, two self-guided (accessing online materials) sessions, six months (18 hours) of post-training clinical case consultation and supervision, and Up to 114.5 hours of [...]
Participants attend the PACC certificate program as part of a cohort, building and strengthening a network of professionals. Locations and times vary by year. The PACC program consists of: thirteen in-class sessions, two self-guided (accessing online materials) sessions, six months (18 hours) of post-training clinical case consultation and supervision, and Up to 114.5 hours of [...]
Participants attend the PACC certificate program as part of a cohort, building and strengthening a network of professionals. Locations and times vary by year. The PACC program consists of: thirteen in-class sessions, two self-guided (accessing online materials) sessions, six months (18 hours) of post-training clinical case consultation and supervision, and Up to 114.5 hours of [...]
Participants attend the PACC certificate program as part of a cohort, building and strengthening a network of professionals. Locations and times vary by year. The PACC program consists of: thirteen in-class sessions, two self-guided (accessing online materials) sessions, six months (18 hours) of post-training clinical case consultation and supervision, and Up to 114.5 hours of [...]
Throughout the last few days and continuing into next week, the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance Committee has been discussing the delete-everything (DE) amendment to HF 1638, which would turn this bill into the omnibus HHS finance bill. The DE amendment is 354 pages long; what follows is the child welfare–related components. This [...]
Last month, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the Supporting Adoptive Families Act (S. 369), "A bill to enhance pre- and post-adoptive support services." The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Finance, where it awaits a hearing. (For an easy-to-read version of the bill's full text, see Text of the Supporting Adoptive Families Act [...]
Preliminary estimates for fiscal year (FY) 2013 on national adoption and foster care statistics were made available at the end of September via The AFCARS Report No. 21 (AFCARS stands for Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System). These estimates are current as of July 2014. Demographics There were 402,378 children in foster care [...]
MSW IV-E student Krysta Sather is Driven to Discover "ways I can be an ally for children, so they can stay safe and keep being a kid." Krysta is a first year student interning at Washburn Center for Children. Below is a reflection of their work with a young child who is in the permanency [...]
