foster care

When Planning Children’s Futures, Listen

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

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

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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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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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Focus on Foster Children

Focus on Foster Children 2560 1707 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This tragic Star Tribune story about a foster mother beating an infant feeds a perception that the…

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The Promise of African American Kinship Foster Care

The Promise of African American Kinship Foster Care 750 498 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Recent e-briefs described state grants to reduce racial disparities in child protection programs. This week…

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Child Care Makes Foster Care Better

Child Care Makes Foster Care Better 597 394 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

When children are removed from their biological families to foster care the resulting trauma often…

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More Child Care Means Less Foster Care

More Child Care Means Less Foster Care 552 394 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

In cases of severe neglect or abuse, foster care may be unavoidable.  But removing children…

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