Foster Advocates photo credit: Senate Media Services At Foster Advocates, we empower our young people by lifting up their passion and expertise and building a Foster-led movement for meaningful systems change. Our network of Fosters* have been working hard this year to elevate three critical issues affecting Fosters in Minnesota. We can’t think [...]
Executive Director, AspireMN This week at the CASCW Spring 2022 Conference we were inspired, instructed and sent – to further Support Collaborative Birth and Foster Parent Relationships in Child Welfare (as the conference was titled). Discussions included reflections from research, personal narrative, practice implementation strategies, and interestingly – little direct discussion of policy.Instead there [...]
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota is not bringing forward legislation itself this session, but our volunteers are meeting with their state Senator and Representative in support of legislation brought by others when it has a direct impact on child safety and well-being. The first such bill has been brought by Foster [...]
Joanna Woolman and Hannah Burton, Institute to Transform Child Protection Minnesota is one of only four states with an explicit preference in our law to terminate a parent’s rights when a child cannot return home. HF 3159 and SF 3984 seek to change that preference, and instead ensure that Minnesota’s permanency decisions in child [...]
Guest blog post written by Wendy Haight, PhD, and Minhae Cho, MSW, Doctoral student, in partnership with the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare. “Crossover youth” refers to youth who have experienced some form of maltreatment and also engaged in delinquency (Stewart, Lutz, & Herz, 2010). Research increasingly points to the importance of designing [...]
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 [...]
Guest Blog Post for University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare Written by: Amelia Franck Meyer, MS, MSW, APSW, LISW; CEO of Alia In child welfare, we come face-to-face with the need for healing on a daily basis. So much trust has been broken; so much pain has been felt. There are [...]
Guestbloggers: Jane F. Gilgun, PhD & Samantha Hirschey, MSW, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota Maria is a fifth-grade girl that has been placed into foster care. Maria was walking to class through a crowded hallway. The school principal was standing at the office door greeting the children. Maria tripped and dropped her books [...]