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African American Child Well-Being Advisory Council
Child Welfare
Commissioner of Children, Youth, and Families
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| Note:
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The reports are by county social services agencies to the Minn. Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families, the African American Child Well-Being Advisory Council, and the Legislature.
The case reviews must include:
(1) the number of African American and disproportionately represented children represented in the county child welfare system;
(2) the number and sources of maltreatment reports received and reports screened in for investigation or referred for family assessment and the race of the children and parents or custodians involved in each report;
(3) the number and race of children and parents or custodians who receive in-home preventive case management services;
and the number and race of children:
(4) whose parents or custodians are referred to community-based, culturally appropriate, strength-based, or trauma-informed services;
(5) removed from their homes;
(6) reunified with their parents or custodians;
(7) whose parents or custodians are offered family group decision-making services;
(8) whose parents or custodians are offered the parent support outreach program;
(9) in foster care or out-of-home placement at the time that the data is gathered;
(10) who achieve permanency through a transfer of permanent legal and physical custody to a relative or an adoption; and
(11) who are under the guardianship of the commissioner or awaiting a permanency disposition.
The required case review must also:
(1) identify barriers to reunifying children with their families;
(2) identify the family conditions that led to the out-of-home placement;
(3) identify any barriers to accessing culturally informed mental health or substance use disorder treatment services for the parents or children;
(4) document efforts to identify fathers and maternal and paternal relatives and to provide services to custodial and noncustodial fathers, if appropriate; and
(5) document and summarize court reviews of active efforts
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