# Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare *University of Minnesota institute in a state child-welfare training collaboration* The **Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare** is an institute of the [[University of Minnesota]]. According to the project's at-issue record, it is one party to a formal collaboration with the [[Minnesota]] state children's agency, and through that collaboration the state university trains the state child-welfare workforce.[^1] The same record identifies the University's [[Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare]] as the collaboration's research arm. The center researches the child-welfare system's performance, so training and performance research sit within one university.[^1] The at-issue item ties this arrangement to a March 2025 presidential action, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^2] ## Who The at-issue record names two parties to the training collaboration: the state's children's agency and the University of Minnesota's Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare.[^1] It does not name the agency. It names a third university unit, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, as the research arm.[^1] The pack contains no dated fact, statute, contract, appropriation or personnel record for the institute, so this article cannot state when the collaboration began, who authorized it, or what it costs.[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue item AI-Scott-038 (package "Scott", source Matrix 3.14) rests on two record sources, on the domains cascw.umn.edu and mnchildwelfaretraining.com.[^1] The item states that the state child-welfare workforce is trained by the state university that also researches the system's performance.[^1] The item cites a White House presidential action as its federal anchor.[^2] It gives the reason for that anchor as follows: "the party trained and the party grading the training share an institution".[^1] The record in the pack shows the institutional relationship as the item states it. It does not show what the research has found, how its findings have been used, or what the training's outcomes have been.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *Item AI-Scott-038* (Matrix 3.14; source domains cascw.umn.edu and mnchildwelfaretraining.com) — states the training collaboration, the parties, the research-arm role and the anchor rationale; the URL given is the item's federal anchor, as the item's own sources are not in the pack's allowed URLs. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — the presidential action cited as the at-issue item's anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/