well-being

September 2016

Transformative Healing

By |2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00September 15th, 2016|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , |

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 [...]

May 2016

There’s No Place Like Home

By |2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Today's Guest Blogger is Ann Rajkowski. The Mallon, Aledort & Ferrera (2002) article entitled There’s No Place Like Home: Achieving Safety, Permanency and Well-being for Lesbian and Gay Adolescents in Out-of-Home Settings discusses an exploratory study conducted on youth residing in two gay-affirming social service agencies, one in New York City and one in Los [...]

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Foster Youth Perceptions on Educational Well-Being

By |2016-12-01T19:32:51-06:00May 2nd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Today's Guest Blogger is Micheline Mutombo Floyd Harris. I extracted my article entitled Foster Youth Perceptions on Educational Well-Being from the Families in Society Journal. The article was published in 2015, and focuses on the educational disparities between foster care youth and youth in kinship care in the state of Vermont. The article highlights school [...]

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April 2015

O The Harm that Good People Do: When a Guiding Principle in Child Welfare is Re-Arranged from ‘Well-being’ to ‘Safety’

By |2015-04-13T12:03:45-05:00April 13th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , |

The Star Tribune editorial supporting the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children, “A start, but press on to prevent child deaths,” (April 2, 2015), should be met with a note of caution: Essentially, the 93 recommendations have substantially changed the emphasis of Child Protection from “well-being to “safety.” In this directive, we have [...]

February 2015

Guest Post: Letter to the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children from Dr. Anne Gearity

By |2016-12-01T19:32:58-06:00February 4th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

August 2014

Minnesota Ranks 5th in Overall Well-Being, According to KIDS COUNT

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00August 7th, 2014|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , |

In July The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) issued the 25th edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book. The KIDS COUNT Data Book takes a look at 16 indicators of well-being from 4 domains in order to observe state and national trends in child well-being. Data used are from 2012, which is the most recent [...]

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May 2014

Building Blocks Toward Permanent Families—National Foster Care Month

By |2016-12-01T19:33:02-06:00May 1st, 2014|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , |

Last month we observed National Child Abuse Prevention Month. We focused on making meaningful connections as a way to reduce instances of child maltreatment, for such connections strengthen bonds between not only individuals, but also among families and communities. Meaningful connections build support networks for children and families while reinforcing a sense of communal responsibility [...]

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April 2014

Making Meaningful Connections to Prevent Child Abuse

By |2014-08-12T16:22:57-05:00April 1st, 2014|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|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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