# Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare *University of Minnesota academic unit named in one at-issue record entry on the state child-welfare training arrangement* The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is a unit of the [[University of Minnesota]].[^1] The project's at-issue record names it as the research arm of a formal collaboration between the [[Minnesota]] state children's agency and the university's [[Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare]]. Under that collaboration, the state child-welfare workforce is trained.[^3] The project's claim:link catalogue lists CASCW twice, each time as a "UMN academic unit feeding the credentialing pipeline".[^1][^2] The at-issue entry ties the arrangement to a March 2025 White House presidential action on eliminating information silos.[^4] The pack does not carry several kinds of material: a statement by CASCW of its own purpose, any filing, audit, dollar figure or count concerning the unit, or any court or agency finding that names it. The record shows the institutional roles the entry describes. It does not establish any finding about the quality of the training or the conduct of the research.[^3] ## Who CASCW is an academic unit of the University of Minnesota.[^1] The at-issue record places it within a collaboration between the state's children's agency and the Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare, with CASCW as the research arm.[^3] In the project's catalogue of 1,400 claim:link pairs across 14 legal theories, CASCW appears under two theories. Pair 50 falls under Theory 1, which the catalogue labels Title VII disparate treatment / §43A.191 / RICO and qui tam.[^1] Pair 59 falls under Theory 3, which the catalogue labels Title IX sex discrimination in federally funded education programs.[^2] These are the catalogue's own placements. Neither pair sets out a complaint, docket, finding or statutory passage directed at CASCW.[^1][^2] ## In the at-issue record Entry AI-Scott-038 is ranked 38 in the Scott package and is drawn from Matrix 3.14. It states that the state child-welfare workforce "is trained by the state university that also researches the system's performance".[^3] The entry's anchor is the White House presidential action published in March 2025 under the title *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^4] The entry gives its reason for the pairing as "the party trained and the party grading the training share an institution".[^3] That reason is the entry's characterization, not an agency or court finding. The entry lists two record sources. It does not identify which provision of the presidential action applies to the arrangement.[^3][^4] ## Notes [^1]: Project claim:link catalogue, pair CL-Theory1TitleVIIDisparate-50 (Theory 1, 1,400-pair series), citing University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, *CASCW website* (undated) — lists CASCW as a "UMN academic unit feeding the credentialing pipeline". https://cascw.umn.edu/ [^2]: Project claim:link catalogue, pair CL-Theory3TitleIXSexDiscrim-59 (Theory 3, 1,400-pair series), citing University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, *CASCW website* (undated) — the same listing under Theory 3. https://cascw.umn.edu/ [^3]: Project at-issue record AI-Scott-038 (Scott package, rank 38, Matrix 3.14), citing University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, *CASCW website* (undated) — describes the training collaboration and CASCW as its research arm, and gives the anchor reason. https://cascw.umn.edu/ [^4]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — the presidential action cited as the anchor of at-issue record AI-Scott-038. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/