CASCW at the Capitol

CASCW at the Capitol, our child welfare policy blog, was developed as a way to disseminate relevant child welfare-related policy information to child welfare practitioners and supervisors.

June 2012

Brain Hero!

By Heidi Ombisa Skallet|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 6th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|

As a follow-up to the May 22 McEvoy Lecture on "Are We 'Immune to Change'? Coordinating Minnesota Systems of Care to Promote Healthy Development in Young Children," I'd like to direct readers to an excellent visual resource, Brain Hero, a 3-minute-long video that shows how brain development can be positively and negatively impacted by outside [...]

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May 2012

The Breakdown of S.F. 1675, Part 4

By Lindsey Brekke|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00May 31st, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: adoption assistance, child maltreatment review panel, FASD, parental arrest, ROP|

This blog post will look at Article 5 and Article 6 of S.F. 1675. Article 5: Child Support Definition Change: American Indian Child- means a person under 21 years old (previously 18 years old) Recognition of Parentage (ROP): Hospital and the Department of Health must provide notary services and file the ROP with the Office [...]

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Final Legislative Actions

By Megan Carriveau|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00May 30th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|

Minnesota's 87th legislative session adjourned May 10th, 2012. This blog post will review the final child welfare-related actions taken by the Minnesota Legislature and Governor Dayton, including one new law and one pocket veto. (As this is the second year of the biennium, any bills presented to Governor Dayton in the last three days of [...]

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Change the dialogue in child welfare!

By Heidi Ombisa Skallet|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00May 29th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|

We here at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare have developed the Child Welfare Video Wall, with the help of LT Media.Lab at the University of Minnesota. The Child Welfare Video Wall is an opportunity for everyone who works in, cares about, or has been impacted by the field of child welfare to [...]

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The Breakdown of S.F. 1675, Part 3

By Lindsey Brekke|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00May 24th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: adoption assistance, child protection|

This blog post will address child welfare modifications from Articles 3 and 4 of S.F. 1675, which was recently signed into law by Governor Dayton. Article 3: Adoption Assistance Language from the adoption statute 260 was moved to 259A to create a more seamless process from child protection. Article 4: Child Protection Reasonable efforts for [...]

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The Breakdown of S.F. 1675, Part 2

By Lindsey Brekke|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00May 15th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: safe place for newborns|

This blog post will take a look at Article 2 of S.F. 1675. This article addresses the expansion of Safe Place for Newborns. Give Life a Chance; Safe Place for Newborns, Duties; Immunity Safe Place language has been expanded to include not only hospitals but health care providers who provide urgent care medical services and [...]

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The Breakdown of S. F. 1675, Part 1

By Lindsey Brekke|2016-12-01T19:33:18-06:00May 10th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: Governor Dayton|

On April 23, 2012, Governor Dayton signed S.F. 1675/ H.F. 1967 into law. This blog post will take an in depth look into Article 1. Future blog posts will address the remaining articles. Article 1: Children and Families Policy Provisions Child Maltreatment Review Panel has been eliminated.MFIP transitional standard breakdown of food and cash has [...]

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Change A Lifetime for National Foster Care Month

By Heidi Ombisa Skallet|2016-12-01T19:33:18-06:00May 7th, 2012|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|

There are more than 400,000 children and youth in foster care; May has been designated as National Foster Care Month in order to bring awareness of the experiences of these children and youth. This year's theme is "Change A Lifetime" in order to encourage individuals to work to change the lives of children and youth [...]

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