Summer 2018: Minnesota Child Welfare – A Framework for Competent Child Welfare Practice
Published by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Child welfare professionals are required to possess a sophisticated set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in order to provide effective services to children and families. In Minnesota, child welfare practice is guided by a shared framework comprised of outcomes, values, principles and skills necessary to promote child safety, permanency and well-being. This framework, called the Minnesota Child Welfare Practice Framework, has been developed to include a robust set of competencies required for quality practice among front-line child welfare professionals and their supervisors. The Minnesota Child Welfare Practice Competencies reflect specific knowledge and skills necessary for culturally-responsive, trauma- informed, and developmentally-based work with children, families, communities, and tribes across Minnesota.
