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July 2012

Summary of 2012 Foster Care Legislation in MN, part 1

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 16th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: 87th legislative session, child welfare, concurrent planning, courts, educational stability, extended foster care, foster care, foster care adoption, foster care licensing, home study, new MN law, permanency, reunification, siblings|

Significant changes were made to the foster care statutes in the last legislative session. This post will summarize part of the new legislation changes, and more will come in a future post. Several definitions were amended: "Child" was amended to include references to other statutes allowing youth to remain in foster care to age 21."Sibling" [...]

Summary of MN DHS 2012 Adoption legislation bulletin

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 6th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: 87th legislative session, adoption, adoptive parents, APPLA, concurrent planning, courts, foster care adoption, home study, kinship/relative care, MN DHS, new MN law, reasonable efforts, siblings|

A few weeks ago, we updated you on the new Adoption Assistance legislation that will go into effect in August 2012. Today we will summarize some of the other child welfare legislation that was enacted in the same legislative session. We will cover adoption policies in this post and in an upcoming post we will [...]

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