Final Budget Decisions from the 2019 Minnesota Legislative Session 1500 500 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Final Budget Decisions from the 2019 Minnesota Legislative Session

The final budget decisions for the 2019 and legislative session finally were released early this…

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Where Are New Child Protection Funds Going? 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Where Are New Child Protection Funds Going?

In a recent ebrief we noted that Minnesota’s child welfare expenditures went up 74% since…

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Mixed Results in Legislative Session – Your Help is Needed! 1000 525 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Mixed Results in Legislative Session – Your Help is Needed!

With ten days to go, the 2019 Minnesota legislative session has produced mixed results for…

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More Funding for Children’s Services 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

More Funding for Children’s Services

The Department of Human Services produced this helpful analysis of expenditures for Minnesota children’s services.…

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Does Child Protection Do More Harm than Good? 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Does Child Protection Do More Harm than Good?

Recent reforms have dramatically increased the number of Minnesota families receiving Child Protection Services (CPS).…

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Deductive Reasoning Doesn’t Work for Children 750 500 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Deductive Reasoning Doesn’t Work for Children

The federal Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) largely defunds group homes and residential treatment…

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When Planning Children’s Futures, Listen 750 500 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

When Planning Children’s Futures, Listen

Child welfare professionals often emphasize the trauma children experience when they are removed from their…

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Ideology is No Friend to Children 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Ideology is No Friend to Children

Ideologues on either end of the spectrum frequently view child protection as “government interference” in…

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Neglect Isn’t Less Serious than Abuse 750 500 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Neglect Isn’t Less Serious than Abuse

Today’s prevailing political view is that children should stay with families when the maltreatment is…

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Implementing a Core Reform 750 501 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Implementing a Core Reform

Jaws drop whenever we tell people that child protection workers commonly interview children in front…

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Unfinished Business 750 422 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Unfinished Business

This week state Senator Julie Rosen introduced Senate File 2283, which would make mandatory some…

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Child Advocates Day at the Capitol 634 442 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Child Advocates Day at the Capitol

A big Thank You to the 30 Safe Passage volunteers who visited 25 state Senators…

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The Broken Harts Podcast 885 462 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

The Broken Harts Podcast

This Glamour Magazine “Broken Harts” podcast is about two White mothers from Minnesota who drove…

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What Children Need is a Good IT System 1000 500 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

What Children Need is a Good IT System

This op-ed piece by former Minnesota Finance Director and quality guru Peter Hutchinson explains in…

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Easy to Say… Hard to Do 750 500 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Easy to Say… Hard to Do

Dakota County’s award-winning Birth to Age 8 Collaborative connects families unknown to local schools with…

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