Featured@CASCW

Featured@CASCW features blog posts from CASCW staff on news and and other updates, as well as guest bloggers on research updates and perspectives from the field.

Interested in submitting a guest blog post to Featured@CASCW? Email the blog editor, Stacy Gehringer, at [email protected] for our guest blogger policy and guidelines.

June 2019

Improvements in the Romanian Child Protection System and Current Proposals for Re-opening Inter-country Adoption (5 of 5)

By |2019-06-18T14:30:00-05:00June 18th, 2019|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , |

By Liz Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part five of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School of Social Work faculty member [...]

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Perceptions of U.S. Social Workers on the International Adoption from Romania to the U.S. (4 of 5)

By |2019-06-11T14:45:21-05:00June 11th, 2019|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , |

By Young Ji Yoon, MSW with Liz Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part four of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School [...]

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Overview of Research into the Effects of Institutionalization on Romanian Children (3 of 5)

By |2019-06-17T10:17:46-05:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , |

By Young Ji Yoon, MSW with Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part three of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School [...]

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May 2019

International Adoption from Romania: A Timeline (2 of 5)

By |2019-05-31T11:23:25-05:00May 30th, 2019|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , |

By Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD The following blog is part two of a five-part series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School of Social Work faculty member [...]

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Historical introduction to institutionalization of children in Romania (1 of 5)

By |2019-06-06T11:35:19-05:00May 23rd, 2019|Categories: Featured@CASCW|

By Liz Lightfoot, PhD The following is part one of a five part weekly blog series providing an overview of the history of institutionalization of children in Romania and its effects on children both in Romania and on those adopted in the United States. We’re pleased to have guest blogger and School of Social Work [...]

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October 2018

Guest Blog: Risks and Protections for Black Girls’ Out-of-School Suspension

By |2018-10-12T10:06:49-05:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , |

Authors: Minhae Cho, Young Ji Yoon, Ndilimeke Nashandi, Dr. Priscilla Gibson, and Dr. Wendy Haight Out-of-school suspension (OSS) is a temporary, complete exclusion from school for responding to students’ misbehaviors up to ten school days. Many public schools persist in using suspensions as a standard practice even though they are largely ineffective in deterring these [...]

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September 2017

IPV Blog Series: Working with Intimate Partner Violence: Moving Forward (Part 3)

By |2017-09-01T09:38:00-05:00September 1st, 2017|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , |

Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This information series includes three blog posts and two practice notes. The goal of this series is to provide information and encourage discussion around children’s exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), specifically within the child welfare system. The purpose of this final blog post is to provide [...]

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August 2017

IPV Blog Series: Discussing Intimate Partner Violence with Children and Families (Part 2)

By |2017-08-31T15:42:53-05:00August 31st, 2017|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , |

Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This is part two of the three-part blog series on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) exposure in child welfare. In the first issue of Practice Notes, Intimate Partner Violence in Child Welfare we defined exposure to IPV to range from directly observing the violence, to hearing and/or being [...]

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