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Every Placement Should Be Safe
Every Placement Should Be Safe 750 572 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

All things considered, kinship care, adoption, and informal family arrangements are preferable to “stranger foster…

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Coordinate Child Protection and Law Enforcement
Coordinate Child Protection and Law Enforcement 750 563 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Lack of coordination between law enforcement and child protection is one of three factors that contributed to…

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What Researchers Say About Family Assessment, or Differential Response
What Researchers Say About Family Assessment, or Differential Response 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Knowing how parents became the primary clients of child protection helps clarify why children are…

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Parents as the Primary Clients of Child Protection
Parents as the Primary Clients of Child Protection 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

As previously noted, there are three main reasons cases like the “house of horrors” occur. One…

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Give the State More Authority
Give the State More Authority 2560 1920 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

As described last week, there are three main reasons the recent “house of horrors” case happened.…

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Three Reasons Minnesota Tolerates Child Deaths
Three Reasons Minnesota Tolerates Child Deaths 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Whenever stories happen like the “house of horrors” and the former Minnesota children who were driven to their…

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Support Guardians ad Litem
Support Guardians ad Litem 750 502 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Our experience with the Minnesota Guardian ad Litem (GAL) program has been great, but legislators…

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Day on the Hill
Day on the Hill 750 563 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This week Safe Passage for Children held its annual Day on the Hill, when volunteers…

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Don’t Blame the Worker
Don’t Blame the Worker 750 505 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Blaming workers and supervisors for the current “house of horrors” story is understandable. But this catastrophe occurred…

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Headwinds for Child Safety Legislation
Headwinds for Child Safety Legislation 386 282 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Opposition to two bills we proposed this legislative session means they will only receive an…

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