Faculty have been busy over the summer, here are two new resources: A module titled Health and Mental Health Literacy and their Link to Health Disparities in Immigrant and Refugee Families by Hee Yun Lee, Ph.D., Jenni McHugh, MSW Hee Lee, Ph.D. and Jennifer McHugh, MSW Candidate, present a concise overview of the compilation of [...]
Board of Social Work Budget Proposal Kate Zacher-Pate, Executive Director of the Minnesota Board of Social Work (BOSW), presented the BOSW budget proposal at the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance Committee meeting last Thursday. The proposal included recommendations for enforcing social work licensure for those who are practicing social work without a license [...]
Editor's Note: Dr. Anne Gearity sent a letter to the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children on January 30, 2015, in which she urged the Task Force to consider the impact of trauma on children as the Task Force develops their final recommendations to the legislature. In her letter, Dr. Gearity includes several [...]
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 [...]
Screenshot of the new poster outlining Oregon's Foster Children's Bill of Rights. Source of the screenshot: Oregon DHS Oregon's 2013 Legislature passed a law requiring Oregon's Department of Human Services to establish the Foster Children's Bill of Rights. While Oregon's DHS already had in place specific rules pertaining to the rights of children and youth [...]
One of the lead child protection agencies in Australia, Barnardos Australia, has introduced a resource for children and youth in foster care: a digital "memory box" called MyStory. The purpose of the digital memory box is to give children and youth in foster care a place to store their photos, report cards, drawings, letters, and [...]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the report Housing for Youth Aging Out of Care in May 2014. This report details the housing challenges that youth who age out of the foster care system face. According to the report, several regional studies have shown that between 11 and 37 percent of these [...]
Governor Mark Dayton recently signed into law the omnibus health and human services policy bill. Within this bill are a few statutory changes that essentially add up to "no smoking in foster homes/in the vicinity of children and youth in foster care." Prevention of Secondhand Smoke Exposure for Children in Foster Care The main statutory [...]
