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October 2018

Legislative Task Force on Child Protection Update: Wrapping Up 2018

By |2018-10-26T14:37:01-05:00October 26th, 2018|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

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January 2016

Legislative Task Force on Child Protection Update: Foster Care Work Group Finalizes its Report to Task Force

By |2016-12-01T19:32:53-06:00January 11th, 2016|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection continued to meet in late 2015 to monitor progress on the completion of tasks assigned to the Department of Human Services during the 2015 legislative session and to hear recommendations for legislative action for the 2016 session. The October 27th meeting of the Legislative Task Force on Child [...]

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October 2015

Legislative Task Force on Child Protection Update: Indian Child Welfare Advisory Council Recommendations Presented

By |2015-10-21T16:03:32-05:00October 21st, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

The latest Legislative Task Force on Child Protection meeting on October 13, 2015, featured a presentation by several tribal child welfare leaders, representing the recommendations of 11 Tribal Nations in Minnesota. Ted Waukey, Family Preservation Supervisor with Mille Lacs Family Services, began with a historical overview of federal policy that adversely affected American Indians, pushing [...]

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Revised Child Maltreatment Intake, Screening and Response Path Guidelines have been released

By |2015-10-19T14:22:04-05:00October 19th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , |

The Legislative Task Force on the Protection of Children is tasked with ensuring that the timelines outlined in the child protection provisions passed by the legislature in 2015 are met. October 1, 2015, was the deadline for updating the Child Maltreatment Intake, Screening and Response Path Guidelines that are to be implemented by all child [...]

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September 2015

Legislative Task Force on Child Protection & Foster Care Workgroup

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 21st, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Child Protection Task Force which was convened by Governor Mark Dayton made 93 recommendations which will reform aspects of the Minnesota child protection system. The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection was recently formed to review the efforts being made to implement the Governor’s Task Force recommendations. The task force convenes monthly at the [...]

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April 2015

Final Task Force Recommendations: Two Track Child Protection Response System

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 24th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , |

The update for this week on the final recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children is on the potential changes to what is currently known as Family Assessment. If you are reading this post, you may already be familiar with the two-track response system that currently makes up Minnesota's child protection [...]

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Final Task Force Recommendations: Screening

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 17th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , |

Throughout the year we have been following the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children from its creation through the debates and now to the final report and recommendations that were released in March. All of the recommendations have an impact on either statute, practice, training, the social service information system, the Department of [...]

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Omnibus health and human services finance bill includes child protection task force recommendations, Northstar modifications

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 16th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Throughout the last few days and continuing into next week, the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance Committee has been discussing the delete-everything (DE) amendment to HF 1638, which would turn this bill into the omnibus HHS finance bill. The DE amendment is 354 pages long; what follows is the child welfare–related components. This [...]

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