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Examining the Association of Children’s Academic Performance with Their Exposure to Parental Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment is the newest brief from Minn-LInK (Minnesota-Linking Information for Kids). The purpose of the study was to “explore[] the association of children’s exposure to parental intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM), as well as combined […]

Registration is now open for the Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate (PACC) program through the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) at the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work. The PACC is geared towards mental health and child welfare professionals in Minnesota interested in increasing their competency in adoption and permanency practice. […]

Download “The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability: Focus on Children” The Spring 2013 issue of CW360°, “The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability: Focus on Children,” from the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is now available online. This CW360° explores issues impacting children with disabilities in child welfare and provides examples […]

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 […]