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Steps to Prevent Child Torture
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Steps to Prevent Child Torture

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
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Every Placement Should Be Safe

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
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Coordinate Child Protection and Law Enforcement

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
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What Researchers Say About Family Assessment, or Differential Response

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
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Parents as the Primary Clients of Child Protection

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
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Give the State More Authority

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
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Three Reasons Minnesota Tolerates Child Deaths

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
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Support Guardians ad Litem

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

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Day on the Hill
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Day on the Hill

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

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Don’t Blame the Worker
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Don’t Blame the Worker

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
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Headwinds for Child Safety Legislation

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

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Is Horrific Case a Holdover from the Past?
Is Horrific Case a Holdover from the Past? 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Is Horrific Case a Holdover from the Past?

Last week the Star Tribune documented this horrific story about a Hennepin County father who shackled, raped,…

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Right-Size Minnesota’s Child Welfare Programs
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Right-Size Minnesota’s Child Welfare Programs

The core components of Minnesota’s child welfare system include the social services needed to implement…

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A #ProtectChildrenToo Movement?
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A #ProtectChildrenToo Movement?

Nearly everyone deplores Larry Nassar’s assaults on gymnasts, and the workplace sexual harassment unmasked by…

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State Leadership on Child Fatalities
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State Leadership on Child Fatalities

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has trained 1,500 staff in a child protection fatality…

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