MN SF3920

Replaces the term "active efforts" with "reasonable efforts" throughout the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act, lowering the standard from "rigorous and concerted" to "reasonable and realistic" levels of effort by social services agencies

Changes the requirement for social services agencies from "continuously" involving families to "collaboratively and consistently" involving them, and shifts focus from "all relevant services for the family" to "safety and protection of the child"

Removes language stating that "active efforts sets a higher standard for the exercise of due diligence by the responsible social services agency than reasonable efforts"

Aligns the effort standard with Title IV-E of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 670-679c), which governs federal foster care funding requirements

Applies the terminology change across multiple statutory provisions covering family preservation, out-of-home placement prevention, visitation for children in placement, relative placement, termination of parental rights, and agency case review requirements