Faculty have been busy over the summer, here are two new resources: A module titled Health and Mental Health Literacy and their Link to Health Disparities in Immigrant and Refugee Families by Hee Yun Lee, Ph.D., Jenni McHugh, MSW Hee Lee, Ph.D. and Jennifer McHugh, MSW Candidate, present a concise overview of the compilation of [...]
Race & School Suspensions SeriesWritten by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair In this blog post, I will first summarize the findings of several studies my colleagues (Professor Priscilla Gibson and Dr. Misa Kayama) and I have conducted on racial disproportionality in out-of-school suspensions in the Twin Cities metro area, and then consider some implications for [...]
Crossover Youth Series Written by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair In this third blog post, we will focus on lessons learned by professionals implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) in five Minnesota counties. We interviewed 84 professionals involved in the implementation of the CYPM. They were judges, attorneys, and child welfare and juvenile justice [...]
Race & School Suspensions SeriesWritten by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair Suspensions and Black Children The goal of this blog series is to provide information and encourage discussion of solutions for racial disproportionalities in out-of-school suspensions focusing on Black children and families. Effective responses to this complex issue emerge from an understanding of the underlying [...]
Crossover Youth Series Written by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair In our first blog post, we described crossover youth and why we should be especially concerned about their well being. The goal of this blog post is to describe an innovative intervention to correct the developmental trajectories of youth dually-involved with child welfare and juvenile [...]
Crossover Youth SeriesWritten by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair The goal of this blog series is to provide information and encourage discussion of youth who are dually involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. In this first blog post, we will describe “crossover youth” and why we should be especially concerned about their [...]
Race & School Suspensions SeriesWritten by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair The goal of this blog series is to provide information and encourage discussion of solutions for racial disproportionality in out-of-school suspensions focusing on Black children and families. In this first blog post, we will describe out-of-school suspensions, and why we should be especially concerned [...]
