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MN HF1420
Bill
Status
2/22/2021
Primary Sponsor
Hodan Hassan
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AI Summary
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Requires local social services agencies to offer referrals to private, community-based organizations to provide foster care licensing support, training, and case management services to relative caregivers.
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Community-based organizations must provide guidance through prelicensing and licensing processes, assess licensing barriers, recommend appropriate variances, and deliver training on trauma-informed parenting, child development, family dynamics, and intergenerational trauma.
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Mandates local social services agencies to contract with private, community-based organizations to conduct comprehensive relative searches, including identifying maternal and paternal relatives, grandparents, and siblings of children placed in foster care.
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Establishes a 24/7 relative caregiver support call line staffed to answer questions about foster care licensing, legal resources, educational access, medical resources, and support services referrals.
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Appropriates unspecified amounts for fiscal years 2022-2023 to fund contracts with community-based organizations for relative caregiver training, case management, relative searches, and operation of the support call line.
Legislative Description
Relative foster care case management, licensing support, and training services and resources established; local service agencies required to work with community-based organization to conduct required searches; commissioner of human services instructed to review opportunities to implement relative search services and kinship navigator models; and money appropriated.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Finance and Policy
2/22/2021