Description The Child Abuse Summit: Tips from the Team is designed to provide medical and professionals from all disciplines with the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to properly identify and respond to all types of child and family maltreatment including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect. These professionals will have the opportunity to learn about [...]
Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This information series includes three blog posts and two practice notes. The goal of this series is to provide information and encourage discussion around children’s exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), specifically within the child welfare system. The purpose of this final blog post is to provide [...]
Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This is part two of the three-part blog series on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) exposure in child welfare. In the first issue of Practice Notes, Intimate Partner Violence in Child Welfare we defined exposure to IPV to range from directly observing the violence, to hearing and/or being [...]
Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW This information series includes three blog posts and two issues of Practice Notes. The goal of this series is to provide information and to encourage discussion around children’s exposure to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), specifically within the child welfare system. In this first blog post we will [...]
On May 11, 2014 Governor Mark Dayton signed into law H.F.2536, which is better known as the Women’s Economic Security Act (WESA). The bill compiled nine pieces of legislation that are designed to increase the conditions in the workplace for women. The nine parts of the bill are: Closing the gender pay gap by creating [...]
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 [...]
Source: U.S. Congressman Robert Pittenger (NC-09) Yesterday President Barack Obama signed into law the Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013. The law is named for Kilah Davenport, a four-year-old girl whose stepfather physically assaulted her in 2012 and caused damage to 90 percent of her brain. She died just last month as a result [...]
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month so CASCW is taking this opportunity to highlight the intersection of DV and child welfare. Minnesota's Domestic Abuse Act defines domestic violence as the infliction of physical harm, infliction of the fear of imminent physical harm, terrorist threats, criminal sexual conduct, and interference with a 911 call, committed [...]
