P&P April Issue 2018

Supporting and Enhancing the Child Protection Workforce PART 2

innesota is one of a handful of states whose child welfare system is structured as a state-supervised and county- administered model. Minnesota’s system spans a large geographical area made occurred in several states, Minnesota experienced a high profile child death resulting in heightened public criticism and news coverage portraying the state’s child welfare workforce as being remiss in the protection of Minnesota’s children. The public nature of the scrutiny catapulted the system into reform guided by 93 systemic and practice change recommendations borne out of a Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children. up of 87 counties and 11 federally recognized tribes. In 2014, as has

By Jamie Sorenson and Traci LaLiberte