crossover youth

January 2017

Cross-systems Collaboration for Crossover Youth: Resources for Professionals

By |2017-01-20T11:28:51-06:00January 19th, 2017|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , |

Guest blog post written by Wendy Haight, PhD, and Minhae Cho, MSW, Doctoral student, in partnership with the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare. “Crossover youth” refers to youth who have experienced some form of maltreatment and also engaged in delinquency (Stewart, Lutz, & Herz, 2010). Research increasingly points to the importance of designing [...]

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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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February 2015

Intervention with youth dually involved in child welfare and juvenile justice systems (Crossover Youth Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00February 24th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

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January 2015

Crossover Youth & Well-Being (Crossover Youth Series)

By |2016-12-01T19:32:58-06:00January 5th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

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May 2014

New MN laws related to harm reduction, financial stability, & juvenile justice

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00May 30th, 2014|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Now that the Minnesota legislative session has officially ended, here is a summary of some of the child-welfare related bills that have been signed by Governor Dayton since mid-April that we have not yet covered. The policies are separated into three categories: harm reduction, financial stability, and juvenile justice. Bills Related to Harm Reduction Along [...]

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October 2011

Juvenile justice issues from a child welfare perspective

By |2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00October 31st, 2011|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation report on reducing juvenile incarceration, well over 60,000 young people are confined to correctional facilities or other residential programs for juvenile delinquency. Juvenile delinquency is broadly defined and encompasses a range of offenses from serious and violent to petty and minor. Conditions within such facilities and even within [...]

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