After Tentative Deal, CPS Workers in MN Talk About Their Work
Hennepin County child protection workers represented by AFSCME Local 34 were among county staffers rallying for better contracts on Nov. 12, 2024. Photo by AFSCME Local 2864. Update: AFSCME Council 5 announced Dec. 11 that more than 4,000 unionized Hennepin County workers, including AFSCME Local 34 ...
Youth Share Firsthand Accounts of Life in Group Homes
Oct 4, 2024 · The new report expands on an earlier version released in 2018 that focused solely on juvenile justice facilities. The recent installment adds insight into facilities for foster youth and concerns about discrimination based on race, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.. The Department of Human Services, which oversees the facilities highlighted in …
First-ever Oral Histories of Indian Boarding School Survivors
Oct 11, 2024 · The first-of-its-kind oral history project, underway since March, receives and archives these memories. Three historians and a team of an additional 10 to 12 people have so far visited Indigenous communities in Oklahoma, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Michigan, and will continue their work through 2026.
Washington State's Plan for Incarcerated Youth Receives Backlash
Green Hill School in Chehalis, the state’s largest youth facility of its type, is supposed to rehabilitate teen offenders. But it has instead been mired in overpopulation, violence and lockdowns over the past year, according to state officials and lawsuits.. Last week, Gov. Jay Inslee announced that early next year, the state plans to move youth currently housed at Green Hill to a section of ...
Headlines and The Interstate Compact with Marina Nitze
12/09/2024. Headlines and The Interstate Compact with Marina Nitze. On this week’s episode we discuss the Trump transition process, the last months of the Biden administration, and recommend some interesting reads from The Imprint and elsewhere this month, including Sara Tiano’s two-part series on the intersection of addiction treatment and …
New Legal Help for Minneapolis Parents, Before Children are Taken
Oct 16, 2024 · The 1-year-old project in Hennepin County is among the newest prepetition legal representation programs popping up across the country, part of growing efforts to provide legal assistance at the earliest possible stage of a child welfare case.
Legal Permanence for All Foster Youth, No Exceptions
Dec 9, 2024 · Melinda Haggerty, Senior Vice President General Counsel at the foundation, who was adopted as an adult, shared, “The impact that adult adoption had on my life cannot be understated.It meant a home to return to during summer breaks in college and a place to go for much-needed advice and support as a young adult.”
Texas Moves Toward Case Management Overhaul
Dec 3, 2024 · Just before the Obama administration called it a day, it issued a plan by which states could get 50 cents on the dollar to overhaul their child welfare information and case management systems. The switch to be made was from the old State Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) to Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).
The Imprint
The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of seven young people that experienced foster care and have completed congressional internships.
The 'SOUL Family' Approach to Permanency | The Imprint
Dec 11, 2024 · The Proposal. Robinson proposes that Congress recognize the Support, Opportunity, Unity, and Legal Relationships (SOUL) Family as a viable permanency option that states can fund using their allotment of the federal Promoting Safe and Stable Families program.