Mariel Carlson, University of Minnesota MSW Student and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW and Laura LeBrun, MSW, University of Minnesota Graduate and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW July 2021 Welcome to the Expanding Knowledge blog series! The following is an eight-week series that will feature means to enhance your child welfare work through education [...]
The Minnesota Legislative Task Force on Child Protection met at the State Senate building on Monday, October 22, 2018. After introducing new task force members and reviewing the role of the task force, the first item on the agenda was testimony from Jamie Sorenson, Child Safety and Permanency Director at the Department of Human Services [...]
Description The Child Abuse Summit: Tips from the Team is designed to provide medical and professionals from all disciplines with the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to properly identify and respond to all types of child and family maltreatment including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect. These professionals will have the opportunity to learn about [...]
Guest blog post written by Erin Sugrue, MPP, MSW, LICSW, and Wendy Haight, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, in partnership with the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare. The Case of Brandon 12-year-old Brandon was receiving counseling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following his placement in foster care. Brandon’s parents [...]
Today's guest blogger is Beth Ringer. On February 24, 2016, the Huffpost Politics blog posted an article written by Dr. Jeremy Christopher Kohomban (CEO of Children’s Village in New York) and Jess Dannhauser (CEO of Graham Windham) titled Towards Equity: Bi-partisan Federal Legislation Tackles Racial Disproportionality and Puts Families First. The article explains the importance [...]
Today's guest blogger is Holly Gilbert. In 2013 Reuters did an investigation into a phenomenon known as “Re-homing” and published it in an article titled The Child Exchange. Many of the children involved in this re-homing were children who were “hard to place” children in the foster care system, were more likely to have higher [...]
The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection continued to meet in late 2015 to monitor progress on the completion of tasks assigned to the Department of Human Services during the 2015 legislative session and to hear recommendations for legislative action for the 2016 session. The October 27th meeting of the Legislative Task Force on Child [...]
Author: Helen Cahalane, Ph.D., ACSW, LCSW Child Welfare Education and Research Programs, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work While originating from a tragic constellation of individual deviance, exploitation of trust and gaps in system responsibility, the high profile cases of child abuse in Pennsylvania increased public awareness of child maltreatment and a re-examination of [...]