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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting - April 2026 - Child Welfare and the State of Foster Care in Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:EVENT INFORMATION \nApril is Child Abuse Prevention Month\, established by the Federal government to recognize the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect. \nThis session will serve as a brief primer on Minnesota’s child welfare priorities such as systems modernization\, statewide MAAFPCWDA implementation\, improving engagement methods\, how Minnesota is leading the nation in racial disparities (and in its policies aimed at reducing disparities in family separation and foster care)\, and why all Minnesotans should care about what’s happening with children and families in our state. \nWe will highlight Minnesota’s ground-breaking 2024 legislation\, The Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act (MAAFPCWDA)\, and why this law was needed—in the context of changing national legislation and research. This law is based on decades of evidence that support efforts to help families stay safely together. How we protect Minnesota’s children and support Minnesota’s families has significant economic and tax impacts for all of us. Prevention is geared at keeping children safe and reducing trauma and is also economically more sustainable. True prevention requires the coordinated efforts of key partners who are directly associated to the child protection system. \nSPEAKER INFORMATION \nWindy Ross has served as the Director of the Child Safety and Permanency Division for the Minnesota Department of Children Youth and Families for 2 years. Windy has worked in child welfare for the past 27 years\, including 17 in Child Protection at Ramsey County. \nWindy is a strategic and equity-centered leader with extensive experience in community engagement\, public sector systems navigation\, and team development. She brings a strong ability to align organizational strategy with the lived experiences and needs of families and communities. \nWindy is known for her decisiveness\, and commitment to ensuring that policies\, contracts\, and programmatic decisions reflect both communities’ needs and operational excellence.  This process includes building in bi-directional accountability.
URL:https://mwer.org/dashboard/events/monthly-meeting-april-2026/
LOCATION:The Minneapolis Club\, 729 2nd Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55402\, United States
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