Source: MN DHS Child Welfare Continuous Improvement Brief 1 A little over a week ago this Star Tribune article reported that Minnesota's high foster care re-entry rate may cause the state to incur a large federal financial penalty for failing to meet the national standard. According to the article, the national standard is 9.9 percent while Minnesota [...]
Hello fellow child welfare advocates and CASCW supporters. My name is Angela Allen and I am thrilled to be the new graduate assistant working in CASCW’s public policy department. I would like to begin by introducing myself and sharing a bit about what’s yet to come in my future blog posts throughout the legislative session. [...]
The intent of Field Notes is to provide a venue for MSW child welfare students to write about their field placement experiences while also providing the public with some insight into what MSW child welfare field placements are like. I am a IV-E scholar this year and am interning at a school as my first [...]
Field Notes is a new blog that will feature IV-E MSW student experiences in their field placements. Watch for upcoming posts this spring!
Source: NY Times/Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press Earlier this week I read several articles (example) about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's executive order to dismantle the state's Child Protective Services (CPS) agency under the Department of Economic Security and create a Cabinet-level division called the Division of Child Safety and Family Services that would take over CPS [...]
As promised from yesterday, I am continuing my "brief bill descriptions" post regarding child welfare-related bills introduced during the interim of Minnesota's 88th legislative session. Early Learning H.F. 1880: Introduced by Rep. Ryan Winkler and others, this bill would ensure that each eligible child receives an early learning scholarship. Beginning in FY2015, funding for this [...]
Although the Minnesota legislative session does not officially begin until February 25, quite a few bills were introduced in the interim on Monday. Because there are several that may impact children, youth, and families involved in child welfare (or at risk of involvement), I have decided to write two posts providing brief descriptions of these [...]
The Child Welfare narrative, for some historians, is linked to this observation of a behavioral economist: "The fate of a child is determined by the accident of birth: to whom that child is born." Thus, the wheel of fate, the luck of the draw, fate without pity and fairness begins the drama of a child's [...]
