Shavon blogs about working with with her field instructor, Faith Jaspersen, at Family Alternatives. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student: Shavon Swain Field Instructor: Faith Jaspersen Field Site: Family Alternatives "Working with Faith and her team at Family Alternatives has been an amazing learning experience. Faith has been generous with her knowledge and very supportive [...]
On March 4, President Obama released his budget for fiscal year 2015. In sum, the budget allocates $77.1 billion to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is $0.8 billion less than the 2014 enacted level. Child welfare-related highlights of the presidential budget are listed below. Medicaid Demonstration Project for Youth in [...]
On February 4th, 2014 the Minnesota Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing met with Dr. Edward Ehlinger, the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), and other members of the community to discuss the health disparities gap that persists in Minnesota and programs that can help alleviate these disparities. (Watch the hearing [...]
It's that time of year again. Spring semester at the School of Social Work means guest blog posts from students enrolled in the SW5905 Permanency in Child Welfare course. Each week starting next week and continuing through to the end of May, we will be publishing blog posts written by students learning about permanency and adoption. [...]
In this Field Notes post, Shavon writes about her field placement working with youth at Family Alternatives, a local foster care and adoption agency. I am a IV-E Child Welfare scholar in the MSW program at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, and I am completing my first field placement at Family Alternatives. Family [...]
Today at noon the Minnesota legislative session reconvened. Did you know that CASCW has an active public policy focus? CASCW's Child Welfare Policy Resources Since 2011 we have been blogging during each Minnesota legislative session, tracking child welfare-related legislation and decoding bill text in order to understand the impact bills may have on child welfare [...]
Minnesota has had an extended foster care policy since October 1, 2010, meaning that youth can elect to remain in foster care beyond age 18 until age 21. Youth can opt for a traditional foster home placement or a supervised independent living setting. Funding for extended foster care benefits primarily comes from county and federal [...]
As part of the Field Notes blog, we will be profiling MSW Title IV-E child welfare students and their field instructors in order to acknowledge the many social work professionals with whom they are working as well as to provide the public with some insight into the content and variety of MSW child welfare field [...]
