As a follow-up to the May 22 McEvoy Lecture on "Are We 'Immune to Change'? Coordinating Minnesota Systems of Care to Promote Healthy Development in Young Children," I'd like to direct readers to an excellent visual resource, Brain Hero, a 3-minute-long video that shows how brain development can be positively and negatively impacted by outside [...]
A week from today, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW), in collaboration with the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), will hold a reflective seminar moderated by Professor Esther Wattenberg entitled The Role of Supportive Housing in Improving Responses to High-Risk, Young Parents and Adolescents in Cross-Sector Involvement: Open to the [...]
This blog post will look at Article 5 and Article 6 of S.F. 1675. Article 5: Child Support Definition Change: American Indian Child- means a person under 21 years old (previously 18 years old) Recognition of Parentage (ROP): Hospital and the Department of Health must provide notary services and file the ROP with the Office [...]
Minnesota's 87th legislative session adjourned May 10th, 2012. This blog post will review the final child welfare-related actions taken by the Minnesota Legislature and Governor Dayton, including one new law and one pocket veto. (As this is the second year of the biennium, any bills presented to Governor Dayton in the last three days of [...]
We here at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare have developed the Child Welfare Video Wall, with the help of LT Media.Lab at the University of Minnesota. The Child Welfare Video Wall is an opportunity for everyone who works in, cares about, or has been impacted by the field of child welfare to [...]
This blog post will address child welfare modifications from Articles 3 and 4 of S.F. 1675, which was recently signed into law by Governor Dayton. Article 3: Adoption Assistance Language from the adoption statute 260 was moved to 259A to create a more seamless process from child protection. Article 4: Child Protection Reasonable efforts for [...]
This blog post will take a look at Article 2 of S.F. 1675. This article addresses the expansion of Safe Place for Newborns. Give Life a Chance; Safe Place for Newborns, Duties; Immunity Safe Place language has been expanded to include not only hospitals but health care providers who provide urgent care medical services and [...]
On April 23, 2012, Governor Dayton signed S.F. 1675/ H.F. 1967 into law. This blog post will take an in depth look into Article 1. Future blog posts will address the remaining articles. Article 1: Children and Families Policy Provisions Child Maltreatment Review Panel has been eliminated.MFIP transitional standard breakdown of food and cash has [...]