#CWConf20 is at the end of this month (February 28th)! As we gear up for our annual conference, we sat down with several of our researchers to ask them a little bit more about how we can foster a sense of belonging by being more inclusive and acknowledging diversity in our research methods. Here’s what the… Read more »
By Allie Long With #CWConf20 only one week away, our team has been thinking a lot about what diversity, inclusion, and belonging mean to us within social work. For this issue of Connecting the Dots, we explore both research and practice examples of how we work to create equitable spaces for everyone at the table…. Read more »
By Allie Long The strength of youth voice: Exploring the influence of youth strength perspectives on desired outcomes for youth enrolled in system-of-care services (2019) E. Sacre Trawick, M. Aber, N. Allen & J. Fitts In this study, researchers wanted to bring power back to youth. This was the first known study to ask youth being… Read more »
Welcome to our monthly feature, News from the Field! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the latest news, resources, and local & national professional development opportunities. If you haven’t already, sign up to get our monthly e-newsletter in your inbox. This month, we are… Read more »
By Allie Long Picture this: You’re a kid. Both a little shy and a little brazen, and also a whole lot uncertain. You’re on your way to meet your new foster family, which heightens all of those traits. And on top of moving around more times than you can count, the only thing you have… Read more »
In October 2019, we released our findings from the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) project. QIC-AG was a five-year project working with eight sites that implemented evidence-based interventions or developed and tested promising practices to achieve long-term, stable permanence in adoptive and guardianship homes. Because November is National… Read more »
A guest blog by Dawn Marie Williamson Scott November is National Adoption Month, which is a time to raise awareness for the incredible need for adoptive families for children and youth in the foster system. This November, we are highlighting a personal story from Dawn Marie Williamson Scott, Vice President of Support Texas Adoptee Rights… Read more »
By Megan Morris This Land Is Our Land: Exploring the Impact of U S Immigration Policies on Social Work Practice (2019) D. Franco This article documents the historical context of immigration policy in the United States and examines the stressors that this has created on Latinx migrants. The author argues that social workers must… Read more »
By Allie Long In an article originally published in the December 2018 issue of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, social work practitioners and authors Megan Finno-Velasquez and Monica Faulkner wrote an editorial surrounding the myths and misinformation on the border, and how social workers are uniquely positioned to help. Almost one year later,… Read more »
By Laurie Cook Heffron and Ana Hernández This article was originally published on the website Youth Circulations on October 7th, 2019. To learn more about their work, visit their website. Against a backdrop of increasing dehumanization and criminalization of migrating families, social work students aim to address trauma within a setting that often serves to… Read more »