child maltreatment

Newly Released: Updated Screening Guidelines and Minnesota’s Out-of-home Care and Permanency Report (2015)

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has recently released a revised version of the Child Maltreatment Intake, Screening and Response Path Guidelines for use by county and tribal child protection agencies in Minnesota. A full listing of the changes from the previous version of these guidelines are included in the January 5th, 2017, bulletin. [...]

Legislative Session Update: Child Welfare Reform Remains a high priority

By CASCW staff|2016-12-01T19:32:51-06:00April 20th, 2016|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: 89th legislative session, agency response time, American Indian Child Welfare, child maltreatment, child protection, family Ombudsperson, foster care, foster care providers, Native American|

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 [...]

child maltreatment

February 2017

Newly Released: Updated Screening Guidelines and Minnesota’s Out-of-home Care and Permanency Report (2015)

April 2016

Legislative Session Update: Child Welfare Reform Remains a high priority