This guest post was written by Tarynn Anderson. Photo by Mark Holm for the New York Times The article, Focus on Preserving Heritage Can Limit Foster Care for Indians, by Dan Frosch, published on January 26, 2013 in the New York Times, explores the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act and how [...]
Today's guest post was written by Katie Erickson. On 2/2/14, the New York Times’ Opinion Pages Room for Debate took on a controversial topic in child welfare. Syracuse law professor and author Kevin Noble Maillard organized the conversation entitled “In Adoption, Does Race Matter?” Kevin’s piece, Not a Deciding Factor, but Not to Be Ignored, [...]
Source: Northfield Patch It was 1973 when homosexuality was de-classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and since then it has become accepted by most professionals in the mental health community that homsexuality is neither a disease nor a conscious choice that a person can alter. However, [...]
Sara, an intern in a child protection unit at a county here in Minnesota, writes about issues pertaining to caseload management, worker turnover, and client outcomes, specifically in terms of foster care re-entry, based on her observations in her field placement. As a child protection intern in a large County, I have seen how difficult [...]
Today's guest blogger is Jodie Glaspie. The article "Protecting foster kids from sex trafficking" by Thanh Tan, focuses on foster kids being more susceptible to being coerced by sex traffickers into prostitution. Every month, more than 100 kids in Washington run away from foster care. In Washington’s King County at least 500 minors work in [...]
Today's guest blogger is G Lee Xiong. The journal article, "Who is willing to foster children with disabilities?" was written by John G. Orme, Donna J. Cherry, and Taylor E. Krcek, and published through the Journal of Public Child Welfare in December of 2013. These researchers conducted a study to extend results from the 1980 [...]
Today's guest blogger in the Permanency and Adoption series is Caitlin Williams Franko. USA Today published an article written by Wendy Koch in January 2013 with the title “USA faces critical adoption shortage: Russian ban adds to record-low numbers”. The article highlights the decreasing number of international adoptions and the decreasing number of children available [...]
One of the most talked about policies to be voted on in the Minnesota Legislature this year is HF92/SF3, the bill to raise the state minimum wage. Minnesota's current minimum wage is one of the lowest in the country, set at $6.15/hour. Under the bill's proposed mandates HF92 would raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hour [...]
