04/09/2024
https://imprintnews.org/opinion/foster-care-panic-in-minnesota-not-so-fast/248463
Proud to be a part of Village Arms and the civil rights complaint filed on behalf of the NAACP by Children’s Rights. From the article: "Fortunately, lawmakers appear less inclined than the Star Tribune to repeat their mistakes. That’s because there’s now a network of family advocacy in Minnesota that was only in its infancy in 2014: There’s the Institute to Transform Child Protection at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul. There’s the Minneapolis NAACP. There’s the family advocacy group Village Arms. There’s Isuroon, an organization aiding women in the large Somali community in the Twin Cities. And there’s that civil rights complaint filed on behalf of the NAACP by Children’s Rights, alleging that the systems in Minneapolis and St. Paul are rife with racism. For some reason, the Star Tribune doesn’t seem to have covered this."
Richard Wexler argues that a stronger presence of family and legal advocates has steeled Minnesota against a foster care panic
