July 4, 2020

New UMD-based partnership changes the way Minnesota social workers are trained on Native American child welfare laws

Author: Andee Erickson

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The new partnership will require new social workers in Minnesota to complete an extra two days of training related to state and federal Native American child welfare laws.
Up until this year, Minnesota's new social workers received little required training from the state on Native American child welfare laws.
A group with the University of Minnesota Duluth has stepped up to change that.
UMD's Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies has partnered with the Minnesota Department of