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Supporting Permanency of Children in Foster Care Through Relative Placement

In 2014, there were over 12,000 children who spent some time in out-of-home care in Minnesota, with a majority in family foster care. While most children in foster care return home, for others, reunification is not an option. As the agency policy specialist for the Permanency Unit of the Child Safety and Permanency Division at [...]

Child Welfare Slices of the HF927 Omnibus Budget Bill

By Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare|2016-12-01T19:33:25-06:00March 22nd, 2011|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: 87th legislative session, background studies, child poverty, circles of support grants, foster care licensing, HHS omnibus budget bill, kinship care, MN budget, MN child welfare funding, poverty, relative care, social support|

Below are a few Child Welfare snippets of the HF927 Omnibus Budget Bill, which is being heard this week in the House Health and Human Service Finance Committee. The omnibus bill is enormous (2011_HF927DeleteAll.pdf). House Research did a bill summary that highlights a few areas - a little easier to digest than 350 pages (review [...]

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January 2016

Supporting Permanency of Children in Foster Care Through Relative Placement

March 2011

Child Welfare Slices of the HF927 Omnibus Budget Bill