Glancing at the several piles of clutter on my desk, variously labeled as "Exposing the Achievement Gap and Its Consequences," I am tempted to rename this series, "Notes from a Cluttered Mind." "Putting socks on the octopus" may be the most accurate summary of where we are in our persistent search for closing the achievement [...]
The SPPS Student Placement Center. Source: SPPS In this Field Notes post, Margaret writes about her field placement working with youth in St. Paul Public Schools who are currently in foster care. My field experience at the Fostering Connections office in St. Paul Public Schools has given me an excellent introduction to child welfare policy, [...]
Today's guest post is Jinyou Kim. Beyond HallYu published an article titled ‘The Drop Box’ and the realities of motherhood in South Korea by an unknown writer on June 14, 2013. In this article, the author brought an issue of the “baby box” in South Korea. The baby box was set up by Pastor Lee [...]
Today's guest blogger is Zoua Xiong. Adoption and Mental Illness is written by Arline Kaplan and published on the Psychiatric Times website in January 26, 2009. The article addresses the controversial issue as to whether there is psychological risk to adoption. The study was completed by researchers at the University of Minnesota with a sample [...]
Today's guest blogger is Derek Zumbach. The practice of “re-homing” is a relatively new and dangerous form of unregulated adoption that puts children, often incredibly high needs children, at risk of serious harm. This extensive report published in September of 2013 by the Reuters news organization looks into this practice to shed some light on [...]
March is National Social Work Month! This year the theme is "All People Matter." The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) website reports that they chose this year's theme and logo in order to help raise awareness about the American social work profession’s 116-year commitment to improving social conditions and quality of life opportunities for [...]
The delete-all amendment was recently posted for the Health & Human Services Policy omnibus bill. Within this amendment, under Article 1: Children and Family Services, there are provisions requiring smoke-free environments in foster homes. First, home studies of prospective foster parents would have to include the capacity of a foster parent to provide a smoke-free [...]
In this post, a Title IV-E child welfare student writes about her field placement experience in Ramsey County's Family Assessment Unit. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student: Bahjo Mahamud Field Task Supervisor: Sophia Thompson Field Site: Family Assessment Unit at Ramsey County Social Services "Working with Sophia Thompson and the entire Family Assessment team at [...]
