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  • Episode 16: Early Childhood Indicators of Progress

    Episode 16: Early Childhood Indicators of Progress
    2026/06/18
    In this episode, experience a conversation about Minnesota's early childhood indicators of progress also known as ECIPs. The more child welfare professionals know about early learning standards and child development, the better they can support the children and caregivers with whom they work.
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    18 分
  • Episode 7: Impacts of Neoliberalism on Social Work Practice-Resistance

    Episode 7: Impacts of Neoliberalism on Social Work Practice-Resistance
    2026/06/12
    In this series, Dr. Toft examines how neoliberal pressures impact social work practice. This episode shares the stories of social workers and child welfare professionals who are resisting neoliberal pressures in their workplaces. Resources and transcript available at: https://cascw.umn.edu/theoretical-underpinnings-child-welfare-podcast-series
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    36 分
  • Episode 15: Talking About Mental Health

    Episode 15: Talking About Mental Health
    2026/04/27
    In this episode, Dr. Katie Lingras discusses her book A Kids Book About Mental Health and how caregivers and educators can help children understand emotions, behavior, and well-being through everyday conversation.
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    26 分
  • Episode 3: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Considerations for Practice

    Episode 3: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Considerations for Practice
    2024/11/06
    Seeking asylum is an act of resilience and protection. This final episode of the three-part series focuses on the implications for direct practice social work with families who are seeking or navigating asylum. Amy Smith, Clinical Faculty and Director of Social Work Services at the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services at the University of St. Thomas and Liz Franklin, Director of Behavioral Health at Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES), discuss how to join with families as a social worker, considerations for establishing and sustaining trust, contextualizing care, navigating benefits eligibility, and sustaining yourself as a social work practitioner.
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    52 分
  • Episode 2: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Understanding Asylum

    Episode 2: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Understanding Asylum
    2024/11/06
    Asylum is complex and can take a long time. Episode two of this three-part series does a deeper dive into the process of asylum in the United States. Hear about the different types of asylum, the requirements, and the challenges of legally acquiring status, as well as the avenues of support that are available for families. You'll hear from immigration attorney Sarah Brenes (Binger Center for New Americans, University of Minnesota Law School) about how the complexities of the asylum process can impact asylum-seeking families, the history of and recent changes to these processes, and what this means for child welfare professionals who work with these families.
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    37 分
  • Episode 1: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Collaboration in Minnesota

    Episode 1: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Collaboration in Minnesota
    2024/11/06
    Don't panic, collaborate! You’ll hear about this advice and more in episode one of this three-part series focused on considerations for child welfare and county workers who encounter families who are navigating the asylum process, are currently undocumented, or have mixed documentation status within the family. In this episode, you'll learn about local changes occurring in Minnesota by exploring a collaboration that occurred in 2023 in Hennepin County. You'll hear from school and county staff who faced the challenges of change by collaborating across sectors, learning from neighboring districts, and keeping their focus on relationships.
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    26 分
  • Episode 1: Creating Space In and for Ourselves in Practice: An Introduction

    Episode 1: Creating Space In and for Ourselves in Practice: An Introduction
    2024/07/08
    There is a movement of energy in, through and around each of us. Meditation can be an incredible tool to help us respond to these energies. People who enter into professions such as child welfare tend to be sensitive and empathetic, and are naturally more impacted by the energy of others. Finding ways to address these energies and messages can be profoundly helpful. This initial episode of The Practice Space offers an introduction to the meditation skills that can help us to build resistance and better sustain ourselves in practice.
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    30 分
  • Episode 2: Removing Clutter: Clearing and Grounding through meditation practices

    Episode 2: Removing Clutter: Clearing and Grounding through meditation practices
    2024/07/08
    In this episode of The Practice Space, learn about ways to navigate the intense energies associated with trauma that you may be exposed to in your work. Gently clearing your own energy space helps to create spaciousness for others while allowing them to find their own resilience. This episode shows us how to redirect energy and to be compassionate in a more holistic way.
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    25 分