MN child welfare funding

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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March 2017

Session Highlights: Bills of Interest to Child Welfare Professionals Being Considered

By |2017-03-10T12:29:15-06:00March 10th, 2017|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , |

The Minnesota Legislature continues its work sifting through thousands of bills to consider for passage. We are currently tracking nearly 40 bills that are relevant to the child welfare field. The Minnesota Management and Budget office’s budget forecast has increased from December’s projection to $1.65 billion. This means that the governor and the legislature have [...]

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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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April 2015

Senate HHS Committee Hears Proposed Child Protection Staffing & Services Funding Formulas

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 9th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , |

On Wednesday, April 8, the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing heard from Ralph McQuarter of the Department of Human Services (DHS) and Jim Koppel, Assistant Commissioner of Child and Family Services at DHS, on proposed child protection funding formulas that are based on recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection [...]

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March 2015

Follow the Money: Child Welfare Funding in MN

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 6th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , |

Decades of policy advocacy have led to numerous changes in our child welfare system. Some have said the current changes to public child welfare harken back to reform in 80s that workers hoped would have a longer lasting effect than it has. In order to really understand the policies that impact child welfare, it is [...]

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January 2015

SF 4, which implements child protection task force recommendations, heard in Senate committee

By |2016-12-01T19:32:58-06:00January 29th, 2015|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , |

Note: This is a two-part blog post. This first post covers the Senate hearing broadly. The second post, found here, goes into detail about the differences between the two main Senate and House bills implementing child protection task force recommendations. That post also includes discussion from the Senate committee hearing when relevant. Senate Committee Hearing [...]

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September 2014

Minnesota’s child protection system will be a “hot topic” during the next legislative session

By |2016-12-01T19:33:01-06:00September 23rd, 2014|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Governor Mark Dayton announcing an executive order regarding Minnesota's child protection system. Source: Tom Scheck/MPR News Over the last few months the Star Tribune and other media outlets have put Minnesota's child protection system in the spotlight, highlighting concerns surrounding the low screen-in rates of reports of alleged child maltreatment as well as the death [...]

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May 2013

HHS Omnibus bill in the Minnesota legislature

By |2016-12-01T19:33:06-06:00May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Child Welfare Policy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Health & Human Services Omnibus bill (H.F. 1233) in the Minnesota legislature has been slowly moving forward. Because the Senate and House did not agree on the bill text of H.F. 1233, there is a conference committee for the bill. This morning the HHS Conference Committee met from 8 AM to 10 AM and [...]

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