The third meeting of the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children is tomorrow (Wednesday), November 5, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Room 5 of the State Office Building. This is a public meeting. Additionally, the three workgroups will be meeting prior to the full task force meeting, from 3:00 PM to [...]
Wunderlust Productions, a local theater company in Minnesota, is creating a play about adoption and wants to hear from those who have been personally impacted by adoption. They invite adopted individuals, birth parents and adoptive parents to be a part of story circles. About the Project: We are working on the creation of a new [...]
National Adoption Month banner, taken from the National Adoption Month website Today is the start of National Adoption Month, and all month long we will be blogging about adoption with a particular focus on promoting permanency for children and youth in foster care. To begin, we start today with a link to the National Adoption [...]
Photo by romfarer/johanne ådnegard on flickr MSW IV-E Child Welfare students write a field journal throughout the course of their internships. In these journal entries, students reflect on their growth, experiences, strengths, challenges, difficulties, successes, supervision, learning, insights, etc. from the field placement. Below is a recent field reflection from a current IV-E student interning [...]
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is pleased to announce that two CASCW staff have received Outstanding Service Awards from the Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health (MACMH). Traci LaLiberte, CASCW's Executive Director, was nominated by Anu Family Services for her work on a variety of children's mental health initiatives. JaeRan Kim, [...]
Earlier this month, the Anu Family Services Board of Directors presented CASCW with an Award of Excellence for the partnership that CASCW had with Anu in 2013 that advanced Anu's mission. CASCW and Anu Family Services have had a partnership since 2007. The goal of this partnership is to examine research and develop evidence-based tools [...]
The second meeting of the Child Protection Task Force. Image Source: WDIO/'Northlanders Work To Improve MN Child Protective Services' The Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children has been in effect for nearly one month. They have until December 31 of this year to report preliminary recommendations to the legislature and the governor—that's only [...]
On Monday, October 13th, as Minneapolis recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, all first year and advanced standing IV-E MSW students participated in the first of two Experiential Learning Days in the Native Community (ELNA). Experiential Learning is a pedagogical approach to education that moves learning from a classroom setting into the broader community for a direct [...]
