A glimpse into Minnesota’s CRP Process Written by Mariel Carlson, MSW, Graduate Assistant, In the process of preparing this blog, this writer consulted with a local child welfare worker. A Brief History Citizen Review Panels (CRPs) are committees composed of volunteer community members, established in each state for the purpose of keeping state members [...]
The Minnesota Legislative Task Force on Child Protection met at the State Senate building on Monday, October 22, 2018. After introducing new task force members and reviewing the role of the task force, the first item on the agenda was testimony from Jamie Sorenson, Child Safety and Permanency Director at the Department of Human Services [...]
The Minnesota Legislature is working with Governor Dayton to determine their budget targets for the passage of the next biennial budget. Committees have chosen the bills that will make it into their respective omnibus bills, and the House and Senate have discussed their versions. The bill we’ve been tracking most closely is SF 800 / [...]
Guest blog post written by Erin Sugrue, MPP, MSW, LICSW, and Wendy Haight, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, in partnership with the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare. The Case of Brandon 12-year-old Brandon was receiving counseling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following his placement in foster care. Brandon’s parents [...]
The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection met on July 27, 2016, to hear an update from DHS on the work of the Implementation Work Group and the grants that were recently awarded to projects designed to reduce racial disparities in child protection. Senator Kathy Sheran opened the meeting by saying that the legislature elected [...]
The commitment to child welfare reform was demonstrated in the Minnesota legislature this year mainly through its renewal of the Legislative Task Force on Child Protection, which was scheduled to expire at the close of this year’s session. The renewal included new tasks for the group, which will expand to twelve bipartisan members. First, the [...]
The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection last met on February 25 and current statute authorizing the task force states that its work will end as of the end of the 2016 legislative session. It appears that the legislature will approve the bill requesting that this sunset be eliminated. In the Senate bill, it is [...]
As the Minnesota State legislative session progresses, with hundreds of new bills introduced in both the House and the Senate, we are following several bills of interest to child welfare professionals. You can find those bills on our Bill Tracker. While this year’s session will last only ten weeks, and all legislators are up for [...]