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Clap for Child Protection Workers
Clap for Child Protection Workers 2560 1803 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Clap for Child Protection Workers

It is heart-warming to see city dwellers across the globe cheering healthcare workers from their…

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Which Children Should Get Scarce Resources After the Pandemic?
Which Children Should Get Scarce Resources After the Pandemic? 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Which Children Should Get Scarce Resources After the Pandemic?

In this article, Chapin Hall’s Fred Wulczyn predicts demand for child protection and foster care…

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Advocates for Adults Use Pandemic to Weaken Child Protection Safeguards
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Advocates for Adults Use Pandemic to Weaken Child Protection Safeguards

In this Chronicle of Social Change article, a legal clinic director urges family courts to…

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Support Workers to Perform Essential In-Person Child Protection Visits
Support Workers to Perform Essential In-Person Child Protection Visits 2560 1920 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Support Workers to Perform Essential In-Person Child Protection Visits

This KARE-11 report points out that child abuse is undoubtedly rising due to Covid-19 related…

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Child and Family Centered Responses to the Coronavirus
Child and Family Centered Responses to the Coronavirus 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Child and Family Centered Responses to the Coronavirus

Government responses to the coronavirus that will benefit families and children most include generous sick…

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How Can Counties Protect Children During the Coronavirus?
How Can Counties Protect Children During the Coronavirus? 750 629 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

How Can Counties Protect Children During the Coronavirus?

The coronavirus is challenging counties to balance family and worker safety during child protection visits.…

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CANCELLED: Minnesota Senate Judiciary and Public Health Finance and Policy Committee Hearing previously scheduled for Tuesday March 17th
CANCELLED: Minnesota Senate Judiciary and Public Health Finance and Policy Committee Hearing previously scheduled for Tuesday March 17th 750 629 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

CANCELLED: Minnesota Senate Judiciary and Public Health Finance and Policy Committee Hearing previously scheduled for Tuesday March 17th

The Minnesota legislature is closed until April 14th.  Meetings of all the committees that might…

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Hearing Next Tuesday on Critical Child Safety Legislation
Hearing Next Tuesday on Critical Child Safety Legislation 2560 1440 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Hearing Next Tuesday on Critical Child Safety Legislation

Next Tuesday the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee will consider Senate File 3692/House File…

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Kinship Foster Care Needs Attention
Kinship Foster Care Needs Attention 750 575 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Kinship Foster Care Needs Attention

Given the progress Hennepin County has made with child welfare in recent years, it was…

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Practical Solutions to Disproportionality
Practical Solutions to Disproportionality 2560 1440 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Practical Solutions to Disproportionality

As is well known, African American and Native American children are disproportionately represented in Minnesota’s…

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Fifth Anniversary of Governor’s Child Protection Task Force
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Fifth Anniversary of Governor’s Child Protection Task Force

Next month is the fifth anniversary of the Governor’s Child Protection Task Force. Its positive…

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The State Legislative Session Has Begun!
The State Legislative Session Has Begun! 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

The State Legislative Session Has Begun!

The 2020 Minnesota state legislative session began on Tuesday. This is the second and shorter…

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Report Compares Minnesota and National Child Welfare Data
Report Compares Minnesota and National Child Welfare Data 2560 1709 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Report Compares Minnesota and National Child Welfare Data

We suggest you save this Child Welfare Monitor article because it includes a readable primer/refresher…

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New State Report Shows More Services, Less Disparities
New State Report Shows More Services, Less Disparities 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

New State Report Shows More Services, Less Disparities

This just-released Minnesota Department of Human Services 2018 Child Maltreatment Report shows some notable trends…

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Improve Accountability for Child Fatalities
Improve Accountability for Child Fatalities 750 515 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Improve Accountability for Child Fatalities

Quality improvement research show that 85% or more of mistakes in organizations, including government agencies,…

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