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About Heidi Ombisa Skallet

Heidi Ombisa Skallet, MSW, LISW, was the Outreach Coordinator at CASCW from 2011-2015. She received her Master of Social Work degree in Community Practice & Child Welfare from the University of Minnesota in 2011. Her areas of interest include child welfare systems reform, Indian child welfare, family & economic policy, early childhood policy, and international social work policies & practices.

June 2015

Racial Disproportionality in Out-of-School Suspensions: Findings and Implications From Four Studies (Race & School Suspensions Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00June 4th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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May 2015

Lessons Learned From the Implementation of the Crossover Youth Practice Model (Crossover Youth Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00May 7th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

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Another Change at CASCW

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00May 1st, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|

Today is my last day as Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW). For nearly 4 years I've been blogging about child welfare policy and tracking bills going through the Minnesota legislature related to child welfare (and for a brief period, federal bills related to child welfare). I've loved every [...]

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April 2015

Omnibus health and human services finance bill includes child protection task force recommendations, Northstar modifications

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 16th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Throughout the last few days and continuing into next week, the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance Committee has been discussing the delete-everything (DE) amendment to HF 1638, which would turn this bill into the omnibus HHS finance bill. The DE amendment is 354 pages long; what follows is the child welfare–related components. This [...]

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Senate HHS Committee Hears Proposed Child Protection Staffing & Services Funding Formulas

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 9th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , |

On Wednesday, April 8, the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing heard from Ralph McQuarter of the Department of Human Services (DHS) and Jim Koppel, Assistant Commissioner of Child and Family Services at DHS, on proposed child protection funding formulas that are based on recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection [...]

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Congratulations to our Child Welfare Exemplary Service Award recipients!

By |2015-04-08T12:53:13-05:00April 8th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , |

Join us in congratulating Heather Rosenthal and Mark Wilhelmson, who are the recipients of our first (soon to be) annual Child Welfare Exemplary Service Award. The Child Welfare Exemplary Service Award was developed in early 2015 by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) in order to recognize Minnesota child welfare supervisors and [...]

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Perspectives of Minnesota Caregivers of Black Children Suspended From School (Race & School Suspensions Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 3rd, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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Final recommendations from the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children now available

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 1st, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , |

The final report and recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children were issued yesterday. The recommendations are organized into short-, mid-, and long-term reforms, each preceded by a short description of the challenges faced in each area and the goals of the Task Force in general. Over the next few weeks [...]

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