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FAQ Example 
- Foster
Parents
A pamphlet on foster parenting in Minnesota
providing basic information
Government Agencies
- Minnesota
Department of Human Services: Children's Services
Works in
partnership with tribes, counties, communities, and service
providers to ensure that children and families in crisis receive
the services they need quickly and close to home. Includes
information on foster care placement, child protection services,
adolescent services, and various studies on the needs of children
in out-of-home care in Minnesota.
Higher Education for Foster Youth
- F.A.F.S.A.
All
persons applying to colleges, universities, vocational, or
technical schools must fill out the Free Application for Student
Aid (FAFSA)form. This website will give you information you need
on how to go about accessing a FAFSA form. FOR ALL FOSTER YOUTH IN
CARE WHEN THEY ARE 18: On the 2002-2003 FAFSA Form, question
number 57, "Are you an orphan, or are you or were you (until age
18) a ward/dependent of the court?" Say yes. If you are/were in
foster care when you turn 18, you can check yes to this question.
This will maximize your chance of getting Pell Grants (monies you
do not pay back to the government). Also, it will maximize the aid
you get on loans that do not acquire interest.
- Minnesota State Colleges
and Universities
This website will help you find
information on all of the public colleges, universities,
vocational, and technical schools in Minnesota, except the
University of Minnesota. This website will also provide the
language of the tuition waiver in the Board Policies section.
Procedure 5.12.2 explains the terms of the tuition waiver for
state wards, youth whose parents' rights have been terminated and
the state of Minnesota is their legal guardian until they reach
the age of 21.
- National
Foster Parent Association Inc.
This website links you
to the National Foster Parent Association website. It will provide
information on scholarships for higher education.
- Orphan
Foundation of America
This is the Orphan Foundation
website. It will provide scholarship information for foster youth
who wish to find funding for higher education.
- Revisor
of Statutes
This website will show you the language of
the Minnesota Law that addresses the issue pertaining to the
tuition waiver available to state wards. A state ward is a youth
whose parents' rights have been terminated and who remain under
the legal guardianship of the State of Minnesota until they reach
the age of 21. State wards (21 and under) are eligible for a
tuition waiver to any public university, college, vocational, or
technical school in the State of Minnesota.
National Children's Law Network
Organizations
- National Foster Parent
Association, Inc.
The National Foster Parent
Association is the only national organization which strives to
support foster parents, and remains a consistently strong voice on
behalf of all children.
Other Children's Law Centers
- Children's Defense
Fund-Minnesota
Works to bring the needs of children and
their families to the attention of the general public and policy
makers through research, education, and advocacy.
- Children's Law
Center in DC
Provides free legal services to children,
their families, and foster and kinship caregivers in the District
of Columbia.
- Legal Services
for Children, Inc.
Provides free legal and social
services (including assistance with dependencies, guardianships,
emancipations, hearings arising out of school discipline, special
education, benefits, immigration, and other cases not easily
categorized) to children and youth under 18 years old in the San
Francisco Bay Area.
- The Corrine Wolfe
Children's Law Center
Works to increase the
effectiveness of civil and criminal proceedings related to child
abuse and neglect and other proceedings under the New Mexico
Children?s Code by improving the knowledge and skill of judges and
court appointed attorneys in child abuse and neglect cases.
Ray Suarez at Children's Law Center of Minnesota's
- Minnesota
Public Radio
If you missed Ray Suarez at Children's Law
Center of Minnesota's Ninth Anniversary Benefit, you can still
hear the recording on Minnesota Public Radio's Midday program.
Follow the link and scroll to October 12th, Hour 2, entitled "The
Weakest Among Us."
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