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Separating Children from Families

Separating Children from Families 710 533 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Most everyone is horrified at the inhumanity of separating children from their parents at the border, then putting…

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Major Effort to Improve Foster Care

Major Effort to Improve Foster Care 506 337 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Foster parents, foster youth, relative caregivers, county staff, and nonprofit leaders have enthusiastically embraced the Quality…

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Misguided Class Action Lawsuit?

Misguided Class Action Lawsuit? 2560 1702 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

The law firm A Better Childhood (ABC) has initiated a class action lawsuit to force Minnesota to…

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Gubernatorial Candidates Respond to Safe Passage Survey

Gubernatorial Candidates Respond to Safe Passage Survey 2560 1703 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This is likely the only time in eight years we can get Minnesota gubernatorial candidates…

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Justice for Victims of Priestly Abuse

Justice for Victims of Priestly Abuse 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Last week St. Paul Attorney Jeff Anderson announced a $210 million settlement with the Archdiocese of St.…

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Minnesota’s Message to Children

Minnesota’s Message to Children 1000 482 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Most years the state legislature gathers all legislation in major areas such as human services,…

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Follow Hennepin’s Lead on Police Communications

Follow Hennepin’s Lead on Police Communications 750 531 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

When parents are arrested, police sometimes release children to unsafe friends or relatives because they…

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Steps to Prevent Child Torture

Steps to Prevent Child Torture 960 640 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

The recent deaths of the Hart siblings prompted the Child Welfare Monitor to propose changes aimed at preventing the…

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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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