Effective Strategies for Working with Involuntary Clients: International Perspectives WELCOME

Monash University Prato Centre Palazzo Vai, Via Pugliesi 26, Prato, Italy

This 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 [...]

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, MN

Parents 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, MN

DAWNLAND: 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 [...]

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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, MN

Parents 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 [...]

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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, MN

Parents 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 [...]

Inaugural Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of MN 301 19th Ave S #307, Minneapolis, MN, United States

In honor of the late Esther Wattenberg, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) will be hosting the 2019 Inaugural Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum on November 6th from 8:00am – 10:00am at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Minneapolis, MN. We [...]