podcast

This 16-part series highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted child welfare practice and workers.

This four-part series features the Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities organization and how disabilities affect child welfare and parenting.

Be@School Webinar series explores school attendance, special education and how to strengthen and leverage relationships to reduce disparities in education for youth involved in county services.

In this two-episode series, Katherine Nulicek, MSH, interviews experts from the Center for Practice Transformation and Minnesota Alternatives about harm reduction and person-centered strategies to help child welfare workers.

Child welfare workers are often placed in the difficult position of needing to protect vulnerable children while supporting caregiver recovery.  Perhaps the old idiom, “stuck between a rock and a hard place” characterizes these dueling responsibilities.  Parents and caregivers in the grips of an addiction or struggling with mental illness need broad support to live their way into recovery, AND, children need to be protected. The work of child welfare is supporting the whole family toward health and wellness where each member has their important needs met.

Host Mimi Choy-Brown talks with leaders and teachers in child welfare services and child welfare supervision.

This series talks about the research behind Lifebooks and Lifestory work, and how this framework can be more accessible for integration into child welfare practice.

In this podcast series, Marjorie Aunos hosts conversations exploring how parenting can be done differently and how professionals can best support parents with disabilities. Marjorie is a clinical psychologist, author, and researcher from Montreal who has dedicated her career to working with parents with intellectual disabilities and then also became a parent with disabilities herself.