African American Family Preservation Act: How History was made in Minnesota
October 16, 2024 at 12:30 central/1:30 eastern
The first in the Way Forward webinar series will be on Minnesota’s African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act signed into legislation on July 10, 2024. Learn about the history and the enactment process and efforts behind this legislation. You will also learn about the terms of the legislation specifically on how caseworkers must deploy “active efforts” to prevent family separation for all children who end up in foster care at disproportionate rates, due to their race, culture, ethnicity, disability, or low-income status. Speakers will include Representative Esther Agbaje, Kelis Houston and Joanna Woolman. Please join us and register here.