State: Minnesota
Contact Person: Anita Keyes
Contact Address: Minnesota Department of Human Services, P.O. Box 64943, St. Paul, MN 55164-0943
Contact Phone: 651-431-4704
Email: anita.keyes@state.mn.us
URL: www.dhs.state.mn.us/
Founded In: September,
1999
Funding: State
funded using CAPTA funds.
Five county based panels - state steering committee
Examples of Work Projects or Focuses of the Minnesota Citizen Review Panels:
- Study recidivism of families in child protection and explore options for alternative strategies to improve outcomes for children.
- Evaluate and promote the involvement of non-custodial parents (most often fathers) in child protection cases.
- Monitor the county and state Child Protection Program Improvement Plans.
- Participate in the Administrative Reviews of youth in foster care.
- Promote consistent and adequate child welfare financing.
- Educate the community about how to prevent child abuse and how to prevent the deaths of children due to abuse and neglect.
- Understand racial disparities in child protection services as they impact clients, their families and communities and communicate this understanding to others.
- Assist with the reviews of requests for reconsideration of maltreatment findings.
- Look at the intake process in child protective services to determine if the process and practices ensure the safety of the children.
- Advocate for Independent Living Skills resources for youth aging out of foster care.
- Collaborate with the National Child Protection Training Center at Winona State University.
- Evaluate the response to reports of child abuse or neglect for children with special needs.
The link below to the Minnesota Department of Human Services' Citizen Review Panels' Web site includes the annual reports and the responses to those reports from the Department. It also includes a new panel member orientation slide show. Just click on the words "this orientation" to see it.
Minnesota Citizen Review Panels, external link, CRP reports at bottom of page
