In January 2014, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) implemented the Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS). The DWRS transitioned the State from a variable, county-negotiated rate methodology to a standard, statewide methodology for most disability waiver services. The DWRS … Read More
Author Archives: Susan Shaffette
Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five
This resource provides thoughts and guidelines for talking about these complex issues of racism and equality in age-appropriate ways with children aged two to five years of age. These are difficult and uncomfortable discussions for which there is no recipe. … Read More
Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five
This resource provides thoughts and guidelines for talking about these complex issues of racism and equality in age-appropriate ways with children aged two to five years of age. These are difficult and uncomfortable discussions for which there is no recipe. … Read More
The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too … Read More
The Hardest Places to be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2020. Fourth Annual Save the Children Report
For hundreds of millions of children worldwide, childhood has ended too soon. The major reasons include ill-health, malnutrition, exclusion from education, child labor, child marriage, early pregnancy, conflict and extreme violence. This report takes a hard look at these events … Read More
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Judicial Bench Book
Collateral consequences are legal disabilities imposed by law that result from a criminal conviction. The laws that spawn these collateral consequences can create social and economic barriers for those with criminal convictions. They are known to adversely affect adoptions, housing, … Read More
The Hardest Places to be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2020. Fourth Annual Save the Children Report.
For hundreds of millions of children worldwide, childhood has ended too soon. The major reasons include ill-health, malnutrition, exclusion from education, child labor, child marriage, early pregnancy, conflict and extreme violence. This report takes a hard look at these events … Read More
Family Processes and Children’s and Adolescents’ Well-Being
Study reviewed about 1,150 sources to examine family processes and child well-being. Themes are discussed related to advances made in the literature because of increased attention to complexity and specificity, advances that were made because of increased attention to family … Read More
Disability Waiver Rate System Family Foster Care Rate Methodology Study Disability Services Division
In January 2014, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) implemented the Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS). The DWRS transitioned the State from a variable, county-negotiated rate methodology to a standard, statewide methodology for most disability waiver services. The DWRS … Read More
Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Relationships
This session will discuss the rationales and realities of relationship boundary identification and implementation. The goal is to assist families and knowing how to work with families of origin in exploring and developing boundaries. CLICK HERE