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Item Child Welfare Reform (CW360º)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2016)Child welfare policy and practice is ever changing across the nation, with countless reform efforts underway that aim to strengthen and improve the system. We often see large systems change that is sparked by crisis and driven out of a reactive response. Such large-scale change tends to lead to increased pressure on the workforce, and often increases workloads and leaves room for more crises. In order to make significant change that is sustainable, leaders must consider the voices of frontline staff, families, and communities. Reform efforts should consider established science by using data to understand what is working and what is not. It is imperative that supervisors and workers are supported through the ongoing challenges that accompany reform, focusing on high quality training that is provided in a timely manner. This issue of CW360° focuses on the many complex pieces of the child welfare reform puzzle.Item Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice (CW360º)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2015)Most often the discussion around culture and child welfare is framed as a struggle or challenge for our field to address. This issue, created in partnership with the Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, reflects CASCW’s belief that the field needs to move beyond this to examine how culture can be used to make a difference in our work with all families. Through culturally responsive practice, we believe we will see true change in disparity and disproportionality in child welfare. In addition to research, overview, and stakeholder perspective articles, this issue features an expanded practice section focusing on innovative, community developed practices.Item Attending to Well-Being in Child Welfare (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2014)This issue of CW360° is dedicated to exploring holistic views of well-being with a strong emphasis on addressing unresolved trauma as a key to better outcomes for children, youth, and families. Throughout this publication you will find research, policy, and practice strategies that reflect the emerging aspects of this work today. Articles include a summary of well-being frameworks, research, and definitions found in both research and practice as well as an overview of current federal initiatives and grants to address well-being among children in the child welfare system; practice models to address child and family well-being; examples of collaboration and cross-system partnerships; and perspectives from the field.Item The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability: Focus on Parents (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2013)Continuing the exploration of the intersection of child welfare and disability, this issue focuses on the experiences of parents with disabilities and mental illness (MI) in the child welfare system. Articles include an overview of the prevalence and population of parents with disabilities and MI in child welfare, practice strategies and policy recommendations for supporting parents with disabilities and MI, and innovative examples of collaboration and communication across systems.Item The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability: Focus on Children (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2013)This issue is dedicated to exploring the issues of children with disabilities in the child welfare system, a population that is overrepresented in child welfare. Articles include an overview of the prevalence and population of children with disabilities in child welfare, evidence-based and promising practices for working with children with disabilities in child welfare, and innovative examples of collaboration and communication across systems.Item Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2013)This issue addresses the question of how to incorporate trauma-informed organizational and practice strategies into child welfare practice. Articles include research on complex trauma, evidence-based and promising practices that use a trauma-informed perspective, and innovative examples of integrating a trauma-informed perspective into practice and policy.Item Secondary Trauma & the Child Welfare Workforce (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2012)Child welfare professionals face unique challenges such as secondary trauma as they undertake the day-to-day work of providing safety and stability to families. Articles include research on secondary traumatic stress and how outside influences can impact work, ways of preventing and intervening from an individual to organizational to policy level, and examples of cross-system collaborations and strategies for practice improvements.Item Using a Developmental Approach in Child Welfare Practice (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2012)CASCW’s first collaborative issue highlights the challenge of providing services appropriately tailored to the developmental ages of the children served by child welfare. Articles include research on early childhood development and maltreatment, policy issues related to children birth to five in the child welfare system, and practice points for addressing early childhood experiences of trauma and abuse.Item Child Welfare and Technology (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2011)This issue is dedicated to exploring how the field of child welfare currently develops, utilizes, and evaluates its interaction with technology. Articles include an overview of how child welfare and technology intersect and challenges encountered, promising practices utilizing technology to improve outcomes for youth and families, and practice examples on harnessing technology to assist workers and improve outcomes.Item Promoting Placement Stability (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2010)Stability is often elusive for children and youth in out-of-home care. This issue presents a variety of research findings and perspectives in order to address this need. Articles include research and federal policy related to placement stability, ways in which workers, advocates, and agencies can help youth achieve stability, and perspectives of individuals directly and indirectly involved in helping youth attain stability.Item Permanency or Aging Out: Adolescents in the Child Welfare System (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2009)Readers are introduced to the complexities often present when working with adolescents in foster care. Solutions and innovations for improving practice are provided. Articles include successes, challenges, and outcomes for youth aging out of care and youth finding permanency, current research and special challenges as youth transition from care, and personal struggles and triumphs of former foster youth, their workers, and organizations.Item Children of Incarcerated Parents (CW360°)(Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota., 2008)CASCW’s first issue of CW360° seeks to understand the experiences and outcomes of children of incarcerated parents and their families as they receive child welfare services. Articles include strategies for how workers can navigate laws as they work with children of incarcerated parents, profiles of service providers who are already implementing programs to assist families, and an overview of how increases in the rate of parental incarcerations have led to an evolving landscape.