Child Abuse Summit: Tips from the Team
Millennium Hotel 1313 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MNDescription The Child Abuse Summit: Tips from the Team is designed to provide medical and professionals from all disciplines with the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to properly identify and respond to all types of child and family maltreatment including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect. These professionals will have the opportunity to learn about [...]
Effective Strategies for Working with Involuntary Clients: International Perspectives WELCOME
Monash University Prato Centre Palazzo Vai, Via Pugliesi 26, Prato, ItalyThis international conference on working with involuntary clients, gathering ideas from research, policy, and practice about strategies for effective practice in child welfare, corrections, social welfare and family services, health/mental health substance use/abuse and domestic violence. Issues related to the dynamics of working with this population will be discussed, with an emphasis on the importance [...]
Be@School: 2018 School Engagement Conference
TCF Bank Stadium 2009 University Avenue Se, Minneapolis, United StatesRegistration: 8:30am to 9am Program: 9am to 1:30pm Speakers: Mauri Friestleben Principal, Lucy Craft Laney at Cleveland Park Community School View Bio Dr. Michael Rodriguez founding co-director of the Educational Equity Resource Center and the Campbell Leadership Chair in Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota View Bio No cost [...]
Supporting Parents with Co-occurring Disorders in Child Welfare (Part One of a Three-Part Training Series)
Beltrami County Administration Building 701 Minnesota Ave. NW, Bemidje, MNParents with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders are overrepresented in child welfare cases. An estimated 50% to 80% of all confirmed child neglect and maltreatment cases involve a parent struggling with substance use disorders (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University [NCASAC], 1999). In a collaborative effort between MNCAMH and [...]
DAWNLAND Free Screening
U of M St Paul Student Center 2017 Buford Avenue, Saint Paul, MNDAWNLAND: A Documentary About Cultural Survival and Stolen Children For over 100 years, the United States government has systematically removed American Indian children from their homes and communities to be raised by white families. Recently, the first government-sanctioned child welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed in Maine. DAWNLAND documents Maine’s TRC journey, as [...]
Supporting Parents with Co-occurring Disorders in Child Welfare (Part Two of a Three-Part Training Series)
Beltrami County Administration Building 701 Minnesota Ave. NW, Bemidje, MNParents with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders are overrepresented in child welfare cases. An estimated 50% to 80% of all confirmed child neglect and maltreatment cases involve a parent struggling with substance use disorders (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University [NCASAC], 1999). In a collaborative effort between MNCAMH and [...]
Supporting Parents with Co-occurring Disorders in Child Welfare (Part Three of a Three-Part Training Series)
Beltrami County Administration Building 701 Minnesota Ave. NW, Bemidje, MNParents with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders are overrepresented in child welfare cases. An estimated 50% to 80% of all confirmed child neglect and maltreatment cases involve a parent struggling with substance use disorders (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University [NCASAC], 1999). In a collaborative effort between MNCAMH and [...]
2019 Be@School Conference: Intersection of Mental Health, Child Welfare, and School Engagement
The Graduate Hotel 615 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesSPEAKERS: Engagement vs. Blame: Tackling the Biggest Obstacle to School Success Anne R. Gearity, PhD, Clinical social worker in independent mental health practice, consultant to Washburn center; clinical faculty, Department of Psychiatry, University of MN; collaborator with schools and school districts, especially Minneapolis public schools; author of Developmental Repair Children’s Mental Health Policies and the Impact on [...]