Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota Podcasts

Welcome to our podcast. This episode will take a closer look at this week’s blog post, focused on this Child Welfare Monitor article which summarizes a paper by Richard Barth et. al. analyzing “10 commonly held misconceptions” about child protection and foster care. The authors are concerned that current efforts to reform these programs are often based on theories that are politically popular but...

Welcome to our podcast. This episode will take a closer look at this week’s child welfare blog post, focused on the recent Minnesota Supreme Court decision which unanimously overturned lower court rulings in the wrongful death lawsuit against Pope County brought by relatives of Eric Dean, whose 2015 murder at age 5 prompted significant child protection reforms. The combined impact of previous stat...

Welcome to our podcast. This episode will take a closer look at this week’s child welfare blog post, focused on this recent blog and accompanying podcast where we described how child welfare philosophy has shifted since the 1970’s away from protecting children and towards parents’ rights. Eventually professionals in our field became so accustomed to parent-centric approaches that we lost sight of...

Minnesota still screens in significantly fewer maltreatment reports than most states.  But some worry that helping more children will lead to removing more of them from their families, leading to significant trauma. There is no disagreement that taking children from their parents is traumatic. But it is less so than being killed. Currently one Minnesota child is murdered by their caregivers e...

Welcome to our podcast. This episode will take a closer look at this week’s child welfare blog post, focused on answering the question of how we got five decades of anti-child policies being utilized in Minnesota child welfare which are based on theories that have been harming children for 50 years. Please tune in to this important discussion, and please call into the podcast or comment with your...

Welcome to our podcast. This episode will take a closer look at this week’s child welfare blog post, focused on our own Executive Director Rich Gehrman’s experience running the Yonkers New York Department of Social Services, getting complaints about men showing up at peoples’ homes with guns and removing their children. He had to persuade an upset community that they weren’t their caseworkers. Tod...

Welcome to our podcast. This episode will take a closer look at this week’s child welfare blog post, focused on why public policy goals should be set through democratic processes, not by private foundations, such as in 2011 when Casey Family Programs unilaterally established a national goal to safely reduce the number of children in foster care by 50%. Since then they have spent $193.1 million to...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. Join us for our annual Fall Fundraiser gathering, this year a Virtual Gathering! Learn more and register by following this link: https://bit.ly/safepassagevirtualgathering One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vuln...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. Join us for our annual Fall Fundraiser gathering, this year a Virtual Gathering! Learn more and register by following this link: https://bit.ly/safepassagevirtualgathering One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vuln...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. Join us for our annual Fall Fundraiser gathering, this year a Virtual Gathering! Learn more and register by following this link: https://bit.ly/safepassagevirtualgathering One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vuln...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

A special interview with Debbie Reid and Emmett Folgert.

July 30th Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. One of the ways we raise our voice to speak up for the needs and the safety of vulnerable Minnesota children is through these podcasts. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. This episode will take a closer...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. This series of episodes will take a closer look at our weekly policy blog, or e-brief, and give you an inside look at Minnesota child welfare legislation, policies, and practices affecting abused and neglected children, their families, foster care, childc...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. This series of episodes will take a closer look at our weekly policy blog, or e-brief, and give you an inside look into Minnesota child welfare legislation, policies, and practices happening right now in Minnesota, especially those affecting abused and ne...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. This series of episodes will take a closer look at our weekly policy blog, or e-brief, and give you an inside look into Minnesota child welfare legislation, policies, and practices happening right now in Minnesota, especially those affecting abused and ne...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. This series of episodes will take a closer look at our weekly policy blog, or e-brief, and give you an inside look into Minnesota child welfare legislation, policies, and practices happening right now in Minnesota, especially those affecting abused and ne...

Safe Passage for Children’s mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. This series of episodes will take a closer look at our weekly policy blog, or e-brief, and give you an inside look into Minnesota child welfare legislation, policies, and practices happening right now in Minnesota, especially those affecting abused and ne...