Children’s Law Center is partnering with a group on Minnesota nonprofits and agencies to promote foster care awareness during the month of May, which happens to be National Foster Care Month! These MNFCM Partners have produced a awareness video for Minnesota Foster Care Awareness, which features current and former foster youth. To watch the video and learn more about what you can do to get involved, please visit mnfostercaremonth.info.
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Volunteer Attorney Trainings: CLC’s next Minneapolis Volunteer Attorney Training is on June 19, 2013. Be an advocate for abused and neglected children. Train to be a CLC volunteer attorney. This new half-day training earns attorneys 3.75 CLE credits and is the perfect fit for anyone’s busy schedule. This is an updated training for new and current volunteer attorneys, judges, county attorneys, public defenders, social workers and other child advocates. Plus- Free Education Advocacy Training on June 24th!
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In 2012, with the help of over 250 volunteers and volunteer attorneys, CLC provided free legal representation to 567 foster children in Minnesota. At any given time, CLC is providing representation for around 400 foster children. This is a dramatic increase in CLC’s case load, over a 35% increase in cases in the last two [...]
On May 1, 2013, Governor Dayton signed into law the Family Reunification Act of 2013. This new law permits the reestablishment of the parent and child legal relationship for certain children who are under the guardianship of the Commissioner of Human Services. The law is exciting for those children who have remained in foster care for significant periods of time without being adopted and wish to return to the care of their biological parents as well as for those parents who have been able to correct the problems that led to their initial termination of parental rights.
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