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Early Learning Scholarship and Childcare Bills Could Significantly Reduce Child Maltreatment

Early Learning Scholarship and Childcare Bills Could Significantly Reduce Child Maltreatment 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Major childcare and early learning scholarship bills are merging and morphing rapidly as they move…

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Do Risk Assessment Tools Make Racial Disparities in Child Welfare Better or Worse?

Do Risk Assessment Tools Make Racial Disparities in Child Welfare Better or Worse? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Los Angeles County and a team of scholars are collaborating on a “Risk Stratification Model”…

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Federal Government Announces Decrease in Child Maltreatment. Is it too Soon to Celebrate?

Federal Government Announces Decrease in Child Maltreatment. Is it too Soon to Celebrate? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

The federal Children’s Bureau recently released its 2021 Maltreatment Report and announced without reservation that…

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Safe Passage for Children Releases Report on Minnesota Child Fatalities

Safe Passage for Children Releases Report on Minnesota Child Fatalities 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Yesterday Safe Passage for Children released its year-long study of Minnesota child fatalities from maltreatment…

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Children with Disabilities Are at Higher Risk of Abuse – Why Not Prioritize Them?

Children with Disabilities Are at Higher Risk of Abuse – Why Not Prioritize Them? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This Emily Douglas paper shows that children with a disability or medical condition are twice…

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Should We Love All Children or Just our Own?

Should We Love All Children or Just our Own? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Our soon-to-be-released study of child fatalities documents numerous physical assaults on children that caseworkers, law…

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Whatever Happened to the Battered Child Syndrome?

Whatever Happened to the Battered Child Syndrome? 1000 482 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

In 1962 Dr. C. H. Kempe and his associates published “The Battered Child Syndrome” which…

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Reduction in Child Poverty Drives a Reduction in Child Maltreatment

Reduction in Child Poverty Drives a Reduction in Child Maltreatment 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

A recent study by Child Trends showed that government programs such as the Earned Income…

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Should Counties Return Children to Parents Who Have Killed their Sibling?

Should Counties Return Children to Parents Who Have Killed their Sibling? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

A country administrator once told us that after a parent has murdered a child they…

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Arianna Hunziker Case Settled with Hennepin County but not Allina

Arianna Hunziker Case Settled with Hennepin County but not Allina 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Hennepin County recently settled a $1.3 million lawsuit with relatives of Arianna Hunziker, the three…

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