CASCW podcast

Dr. Toft introduces new thinking on social work resistance to business managerialism. She interviews social workers from child protection, housing, and mental health about their resistance efforts in the current practice landscape.

Resources and transcript available at: https://cascw.umn.edu/portfolio-items/theoretical-underpinnings-in-child-welfare-podcast-series/

In this episode Marjorie Aunos and Dr. Traci LaLiberte reflect on the Parenting Done Differently Podcast. In this series Marjorie interviewed over 20 scholars and researchers in the field along with parents with disabilities and the children of parents with disabilities. Marjorie and Traci speak about the importance of providing tools for professionals who work in child welfare and looking for answers where we least expect them.

SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at:

z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In Episode 25, Marjorie speaks with Eliza Hull, musician, writer and disability advocate. She was the 8-parts-series podcast host of We've Got This and is the editor behind the books of the same title that brings forward the stories of families headed by one or two parents with disabilities in an Australian, US and UK edition.

SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at:

http://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In episode 24, Tommie Forslund talks about how he and his colleagues have used the lens of child attachment and maternal sensitivity to view the parenting of mothers with intellectual disabilities. He also talks about the importance of taking into account contextual factors, such as the parents’ experiences of abuse and maltreatment, in order to intervene and provide support more efficaciously.

SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at:

z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In episode 23, Marjorie speaks with Lesley Tarasoff. Lesley has interviewed several parents with different disabilities about the disparities they faced pre, during, and post pregnancy. She shares the insight she gained while speaking to them.

SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at:

z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

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, and Transcript available at:

https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently