CASCW podcast

In episode 22, Hilary Brown presents her groundbreaking data around pregnancy rates in women with all kinds of disabilities. She brings forward data from large datasets and complements them with some elements of qualitative data Lesley Tarasoff has collected. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In episode 21, Marjorie speaks with Dani Izzie. Dani is a disability advocate and wheelchair user and a new mom to twins. She is the subject and producer of the documentary film, “Dani’s Twins,” about pregnancy and motherhood as a quadriplegic during the pandemic. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

Robyn Powell speaks about the discrimination persons with disabilities face when it comes to their right to have and create their family the way they see fit. She talks about how ableism is ingrained into child welfare and how this system should be completely remodeled. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In episode 19, guest Rachel Mayes looked at one thing that not many thought of focusing on: the grief response of parents with disabilities who lost custody of their children. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In episode 18, Liz Lightfoot speaks about Parents with Disabilities slipping through the cracks and not receiving the support they require. She talks about the need to change practices within the child welfare system and dreams of implementing a national training curriculum for social workers that would include dissemination of knowledge around parenting with a disability. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, an...

Hanna Bjorg Sigurjondsottir and Jim Rice have extensive knowledge of the Child Welfare System in Iceland. In episode 17, they speak to the faults and preconceived biases that the system can impose and how detrimental it can be, especially to parents with intellectual disabilities. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In episode sixteen, Marjorie speaks with Carmit-Noa Shpligelman. Carmit is a mom by choice and a woman with a disability. She discusses her research on the attitudes of workers towards the parenthood of parents with disabilities. In their work with children and families, child welfare workers can learn from Carmit’s incredible lived experience and applicable research. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Tra...

In episode fifteen part 2, Ella Callow speaks more with Marjorie about the law pertaining to the rights of parents with disabilities and the intersection of parenting, disability, and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). She discusses Native people’s experiences of disability in their community and how explicit or implicit bias about disability and an inability to parent leads to detrimental decis...

In part 1 of this two-part episode, Ella Callow speaks about the law pertaining to the rights of parents with disabilities and the intersection of parenting, disability and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). She points out the systemic discrimination that is still pervasive in many states and other parts of the world. Ella’s lens as a member of an Indigenous community and experience as a lawyer...

In episode 13, Marjorie speaks with Beth Tarleton, who believes that workers need to be empowered to do their job. She talks about her orientation has always been to look for new ways to train, infuse knowledge and support the workers who support the parents. Beth Tarleton is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol. Beth has been researching positive support for parents with learning disabi...

In this episode, Amanda Moses interviews Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH, to discuss parental separation, including incarceration, and how it impacts families. It includes an exploration of research and advocacy work around current practices in Minnesota for incarcerated parents, and a discussion for how to work with prison systems around advocating for families. Strategies are discussed for how child w...

In this episode, Andre Dukes, MA, interviews Gil Domally to discuss the important role of fathers in children’s development and how child welfare workers can be more inclusive of fathers. Drawing on research, personal, and professional experiences, the conversation includes topics such as barriers to father involvement, misconceptions around fathers, and strategies to engage fathers in a more incl...

In this podcast, Alyssa Meuwissen, PhD, interviews Kristin Johnson, MSW, LGSW, IMH-E, and Jessica Hoeper, MSW, LISW, IMH-E about the concept of well-being for the child welfare workforce. Topics include why well-being is so important to focus on and why child welfare can be a particularly difficult field. Drawing on research and personal experience, the participants explore the role of emotions an...

Rinal Ray is the Interim Executive Director at People Serving People. She leads a dynamic team in responding to the crisis of family homelessness and works to change systems to prevent the experience of family homelessness in Hennepin County. Rinal is a former deputy public policy director for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits where she advanced the organization’s policy agenda at a state and lo...

Ending Family Homelesssness Marybeth (Beth) Shinn is a Cornelius Vanderbilt professor at Vanderbilt University who studies how to prevent and end homelessness. She was co-principal investigator of the 12-site Family Options experiment examining approaches to ending family homelessness, the evaluator for the initial study of the Pathways Housing First program in New York City, and the developer of...

Charlotte Kinzley is the Homeless/Highly Mobile Manager for Minneapolis Public Schools where she supports students and families experiencing homelessness. Over the past 20 years she has developed programming and initiatives in family shelters and supportive housing facilities in Minneapolis. Her focus in this work has been to support the development of young people and to advocate for the importan...

In episode 12, Laura Pacheco brings forward the importance of understanding a family's culture to better understand their experience, goals and aspirations and know how to best support them. She speaks briefly about Tim and Wendy Booth's legacy and how they influenced her way of conducting research and practice. Dr. Laura Pacheco is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and Memorial...

This episode features four professionals working together to address homelessness in Northwestern, Minnesota. Brandi Wilkie is the Rental Assistance Specialist for Clay County HRA Amy Riccio is the Transitional Student Support and Homeless Liasion for Moorhead School District Sierra Neeland-Martinez is the Youth Self-Sufficiency Advocate for Lakes and Prairies Community Action Chandra Calixte is t...

This episode features four professionals working together to address homelessness in Northwestern, Minnesota. Brandi Wilkie is the Rental Assistance Specialist for Clay County HRA Amy Riccio is the Transitional Student Support and Homeless Liasion for Moorhead School District Sierra Neeland-Martinez is the Youth Self-Sufficiency Advocate for Lakes and Prairies Community Action Chandra Calixte is t...

In this episode, Marjorie speaks with Marja Hodes, a clinical psychologist from the Netherlands with extensive experience working with parents with intellectual disabilities. Her frame of mind is about finding appropriate ways to support parents and continuously staying open to their lived expertise. Together with her colleagues, Marja developed a toolkit “Talking About Children” (and earned a nat...

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Tammy Bachrach, a researcher and adult child of parents with intellectual disabilities. Tammy speaks to her research interviewing adult children of parents with IDD and her own lived expertise. Her perspective and multitude of experience should be really interesting to child welfare workers working with parents and children! SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript...

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Margaret Spencer who has extensive experience as a social worker, as a 'mother' supporting a mother with intellectual disabilities (Beth & Lily's mother) and as a researcher. She brings forward the issues of using or relying on parenting capacity assessments, how our beliefs on capacity affects our views, how offering a supportive environment is possible and ma...

In this episode, Liz Snyder, Co-Director of the Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy, speaks with Ricardo Pina and Nancy Carre-Lee from New Jersey's Department of Children and Families (NJDCF) as they share some of the innovative efforts New Jersey has put in place to support worker safety and wellness, including the establishment of the Office of Staff Health & Wellness. SHOWNOTES & RESOURCES...

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Evelina Pituch. She speaks of the needs and service gaps of parents with neurological and physical disabilities, based on focus groups she has conducted with parents with disabilities, their support partner, workers in the field, their managers and community organization workers. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-don...

In this episode, Monika Mitra speaks about parenthood of persons with disabilities and the notion of representation in large population datasets. Dr. Monika Mitra is the Nancy Lurie Marks Associate Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University. Her research broadly focuses on disparities in health outcomes and health care access amo...