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The Voice of Early Childhood Development Advocates is Crucial to Child Safety
The Voice of Early Childhood Development Advocates is Crucial to Child Safety 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Child welfare and early childhood development advocates are both concerned about the lifelong impact of…

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Support Group for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Offers Healing
Support Group for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Offers Healing 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Volunteers and friends of Safe Passage are starting a support group for adult survivors of…

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Canada and its First Nations Reach $31.5B Child Welfare Settlement
Canada and its First Nations Reach $31.5B Child Welfare Settlement 960 945 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This week Canadian First Nations (Indigenous tribes) and the federal government reached a $31.5B ($40B…

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What’s Worse than Going into Foster Care?
What’s Worse than Going into Foster Care? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This “just-when-you-thought-it-couldn’t-get-worse” New York Times article documents a “shadow foster care” system that tells parents…

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Do We Need Journalists to Reform Child Welfare?
Do We Need Journalists to Reform Child Welfare? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Good journalists deliver objective reports that we can rely on.  They quickly grasp topics that others have…

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Should Politics or Research Drive Child Welfare Reforms?
Should Politics or Research Drive Child Welfare Reforms? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This Child Welfare Monitor article summarizes a paper by Richard Barth et. al. analyzing “10…

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State Supreme Court Decision on Eric Dean – A Win for Children
State Supreme Court Decision on Eric Dean – A Win for Children 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Recently the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously overturned lower court rulings in the wrongful death lawsuit…

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Two Simple Rules for Driving out of the Fog
Two Simple Rules for Driving out of the Fog 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

In this recent blog and accompanying podcast we described how child welfare philosophy has shifted…

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Which Trauma Should We Choose?
Which Trauma Should We Choose? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Minnesota still screens in significantly fewer maltreatment reports than most states.  But some worry that…

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How We Got Five Decades of Anti-Child Policies
How We Got Five Decades of Anti-Child Policies 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

In 1972 the Annie E. Casey and Edna McConnell Clark foundations began promoting Intensive Family…

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