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is to promote academic success by reducing social, emotional, economic and environmental barriers to learning.

MSSWA SPRING CONFERENCE 2012 Wednesday, March 7, 2012
8:00am - 4:00pm
MN Department of Education, Roseville
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Annual Day at the Hill
Monday, February 27th is an opportunity for professional school social workers to come together to educate state lawmakers about our valuable role we fill in schools.

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MINNESOTA SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS' ASSOCIATION LEGISLATIVE AGENDA 2010-11

Contact Christy McCoy for more information

The Minnesota School Social Workers' Association (MSSWA) has been serving children in their schools, homes and communities for over 40 years. We are an association of school social workers throughout Minnesota who work with students and their families to provide mental health related services and support in the school system. Although our jobs differ between districts statewide, we are united in our common goal of working with the "whole child," MSSWA defines "whole child" as working with the child in his/her environment with consideration to family, community, values, culture and language. We help teachers teach by reducing the social and emotional barriers to learning by collaborating in the development of academic intervention plans to ensure student success. Because of their unique understanding of both the mental health system and the educational system, school social workers play a vital role in our schools by helping students succeed.

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILED LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MSSWA REGARDING:

HOW ARE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK SERVICES COST EFFECTIVE?

WHY MSSWA ADVOCATES FOR SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

AND MSSWA LEGISLATIVE FOCUS FOR 2011


If you are wondering who represents you, just go to "Welcome to the Minnesota Legislature" At the bottom of this page, you can enter you address to find you current State Representatives and Senators. It is important that you Representatives hears from you! You can write them an email, invite them for coffee, invite them to your school or your region meetings. Your students and families need their voices heard and you have the power to educate our policy makers on the barriers impacting student success and the invaluable role you provide in helping students oversome these barriers to ensure that they are ready and able to learn.

The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) offers another avenue to stay up-to-date and uncover resources for following and responding to legislation that impacts public child welfare practice. CASCW has put together a Child Welfare Policy web page. full of resources to educate child welfare practitioners about the latest developments in child welfare policy as they are happening, as well as educating policy makers about the latest policy relevant child welfare research findings.