APPLA

July 2012

New foster care legislation in Minnesota, part 2

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 18th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: 87th legislative session, APPLA, best interests of the child, foster care, permanency, placement preference, relative/kinship care|

On Monday, we highlighted some of the changes to the foster care statutes that were passed in the 2012 legislative session in Minnesota. This post will continue the focus on the foster care changes that were made. Many of the changes impact relatives. Changes to the law regarding relative search include: The court may now [...]

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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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