CASCW podcast

Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
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The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is committed to connecting child welfare professionals to relevant and accessible training resources. We are excited to bring you the latest in research, policy, and practice via podcasts. This channel will cover a wide range of topics and will feature interviews with researchers, policy makers, frontline child welfare workers, community members, and many others. If you would like a transcript of any of our podcasts, please visit our website podcast page: https://cascw.umn.edu/podcasts/.

  1. Episode 1: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Collaboration in Minnesota

    11/06/2024

    Episode 1: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Collaboration in Minnesota

    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.

    26 min
  2. Episode 2: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Understanding Asylum

    11/06/2024

    Episode 2: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Understanding Asylum

    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.

    37 min
  3. Episode 3: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Considerations for Practice

    11/06/2024

    Episode 3: Working With Undocumented & Asylum-Seeking Families: Considerations for Practice

    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.

    52 min
  4. Episode 1: Creating Space In and for Ourselves in Practice: An Introduction

    07/08/2024

    Episode 1: Creating Space In and for Ourselves in Practice: An Introduction

    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.

    30 min
  5. Episode 2: Removing Clutter: Clearing and Grounding through meditation practices

    07/08/2024

    Episode 2: Removing Clutter: Clearing and Grounding through meditation practices

    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.

    25 min
  6. Episode 3: Finding the Well: Replenishing Ourselves Through Practice

    07/08/2024

    Episode 3: Finding the Well: Replenishing Ourselves Through Practice

    In this episode of The Practice Space, learn about ways to retain your neutrality and openness as you navigate challenging energies and intense emotional situations. Hear about some simple daily habits that you can use to ground yourself to be present and encounter each unique situation as it is, not as you might imagine or prefer it to be.

    28 min
  7. Episode 4: Rocks and Hard Places: Developing skills for sustaining ourselves in practice

    07/08/2024

    Episode 4: Rocks and Hard Places: Developing skills for sustaining ourselves in practice

    In this episode of The Practice Space, learn about the importance of developing skills to guide human interactions, especially in practice settings that may be uniquely challenging. Some professional arenas can include chronic stress for workers (such as with child welfare and palliative care), and we can also experience isolation and difficulty talking about our experiences with others. Caring for yourself includes cultivating human connections where you can talk about and deal with tough and complex issues, together.

    32 min
  8. Episode 5: Building our Meditation Muscles

    07/08/2024

    Episode 5: Building our Meditation Muscles

    Energy exchange is happening all the time, all around us. Your own personal, emotional space that you carry with you wherever you go accumulates finished and unfinished interactions, and these can sit in your space and create discomfort. In this episode of The Practice Space, experience a guided meditation and clearing practice where you can dive deeper and learn ways to find more room for yourself and discern what belongs to you and what you need to let go.

    40 min
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The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is committed to connecting child welfare professionals to relevant and accessible training resources. We are excited to bring you the latest in research, policy, and practice via podcasts. This channel will cover a wide range of topics and will feature interviews with researchers, policy makers, frontline child welfare workers, community members, and many others. If you would like a transcript of any of our podcasts, please visit our website podcast page: https://cascw.umn.edu/podcasts/.

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  • Creator
    Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    111
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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    CASCW podcast