culturally responsive practice

Refugee Families in Minnesota and their Experiences in the Child Welfare System

Authors: Tonya Horn, MSW, Kristine Piescher, PhD, Patricia Shannon, Phd, L.P., Sahoon Hong, PhD, Anna Benton, MPP, Erin Sugrue, MSW, MPP, LICSW, Brandon Higgins, MSW
Published: January 2018

These Modules provide information for child welfare professionals about refugee families in Minnesota and their experiences in the child protection system.

CW360° - Winter 2015 - Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice

This issue, created in partnership with the Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, reflects CASCW’s belief that the field needs to move beyond this to examine how culture can be used to make a difference in our work with all families.

Minn-LInK Edition 36: Involvement of Somali and Oromo Youth in Minnesota's Child Protection System

The purpose of this study was to examine the proportion of Somali and Oromo youth involved and their experiences in Minnesota’s Child Protection System (CPS). Because this is not an identifiable group in CPS data systems, an innovative data matching project was used to explore and reveal unique knowledge about this rarely studied population’s experiences with CPS.