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Registration is now open for the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare’s (CASCW) 14th annual free child welfare conference, “The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability,” on May 7, 2013, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The conference will be held in the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota’s East Bank campus, […]

The School of Social Work's Dale Blyth was named the 2013 recipient of the MnSACA Award of Excellence.

The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is now accepting applications for Title IV-E funding from prospective and current Master of Social Work students who are interested in child welfare. Federal Social Security Title IV-E funds subsidize child welfare services to keep children in their families when possible, provide permanency planning services, or […]

The Winter 2013 issue of CW360°, “Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice,” from the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare in partnership with the Ambit Network is now available online and in print. This issue focuses on trauma-informed practice with children and families involved in the child welfare system. CW360° is meant to provide communities, child […]

Registration is now open for Codes of Silence, Confidentiality, & Secrets: Implications for the Child Welfare System. This FREE reflective seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW), the School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), University of […]

In the last week, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare has published four new online learning modules for child welfare professionals. These modules are: Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare, authored by Juliana Carlson, AM, Jeff Edleson, PhD, and Rob Wilson, MSW; Secondary Traumatic Stress, authored by Tonya Cook, MSW, PhD Candidate, Anna Carpenter, […]

The Children and Youth Services Review recently published an article based on the doctoral dissertation research of Dr. Katharine Hill, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, University of St. Thomas. Dr. Hill used CASCW’s Minn-LInK data to create a sample of 2,156 older youth with disability data in Minnesota in order to examine […]

As a way to raise awareness of the experiences of the more than 400,000 children and youth in foster care in the United States, May has been designated as National Foster Care Month since 1988, thanks to the efforts of the National Foster Parent Association and then-Senator Strom Thurmond, and the support of each President […]

The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) has released the results of a new study that shows the positive effects of supportive housing on the educational outcomes and overall well being of children in homeless families. The study, by Minn-LInk—Minnesota-Linking Information for Kids, focused on children enrolled in Hearth Connection’s supportive housing program […]

Megan Alama, a second-year master's of social work student, was awarded the 2011 President's Student Leadership and Service Award.