Minnesota

After less than a year as executive director, the head of the Minnesota youth-led advocacy group Foster Advocates has left her position.

Richard Wexler argues that a stronger presence of family and legal advocates has steeled Minnesota against foster care panics

I went from being in a space with only Fosters to non-foster peers who had always had a stable home and family, writes Travis Matthews.

The Minnesota budget proposed this week by Gov. Tim Walz seeks to invest millions into overhauling the technology used to manage foster care cases.

Mark Fiddler has focused much of the past decade on attempts to dismantle the law that aims to preserve Indigenous families and tribes.

A case before the Minnesota Court of Appeals revives a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, as well as a local version of the law. 

Two civil rights groups are calling on the federal government to investigate "egregious and shocking" discrimination against Black families in Minnesota.

In Minneapolis, Wildflyer Coffee's four-month work training program offers employment and services to youth experience homelessness.

A new department in Minnesota will elevate the needs of children, youth and families in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, day care centers, and those experiencing homelessness.