As the Minnesota State legislative session progresses, with hundreds of new bills introduced in both the House and the Senate, we are following several bills of interest to child welfare professionals. You can find those bills on our Bill Tracker. While this year’s session will last only ten weeks, and all legislators are up for [...]
We are happy to announce that our 12th issue of CW360º, Child Welfare Reform, is now available online. The task of making revolutionary, or even incremental, change to a system as complicated as our child welfare system can be daunting. Many ideas have been presented and attempted over the past several decades, with mixed results. [...]
Author: Helen Cahalane, Ph.D., ACSW, LCSW Child Welfare Education and Research Programs, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work While originating from a tragic constellation of individual deviance, exploitation of trust and gaps in system responsibility, the high profile cases of child abuse in Pennsylvania increased public awareness of child maltreatment and a re-examination of [...]
Author: Mario Cattabiani is the Director of Communications at Ross Feller Casey- one of the law firms that helped bring justice to several of the Sandusky victims. Jerry Sandusky initially made a name for himself during the 32 years that he spent on the football coaching staff at Penn State. He also founded the Second [...]
In September 2013, CASCW received a grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the capacity of the Minn-LInK project to conduct data-intensive, interdisciplinary research to understand child well-being. The grant helped expand the infrastructure of the project, organize a community of researchers, and created a pilot Doctoral Fellowship program. This month, Minn-LInK welcomed the [...]
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare is hiring for an Outreach and Policy Program Coordinator position. The Outreach Coordinator develops and/or connects child welfare stakeholders in Minnesota and nationwide to dynamic, relevant, accessible, research-informed practice and policy resources and trainings. These resources and trainings bridge the worlds of research, policy, and practice for [...]
Faculty have been busy over the summer, here are two new resources: A module titled Health and Mental Health Literacy and their Link to Health Disparities in Immigrant and Refugee Families by Hee Yun Lee, Ph.D., Jenni McHugh, MSW Hee Lee, Ph.D. and Jennifer McHugh, MSW Candidate, present a concise overview of the compilation of [...]
In the wake of the tragic death of Vermont child protection worker Lara Sobel, CASCW would like to take a moment to discuss workplace safety and the implications of secondary traumatic stress for workers and their supervisors in the field. The field of social work can be challenging and can impact us emotionally and physically. [...]
