1997 Minnesota Statutes

     257.075 Grants for support services. 

    The commissioner of human services may make grants to 
 authorized child-placing agencies that provide services to 
 minority children in out-of-home placements.  Support services 
 may include, but are not limited to: 

    (1) development of foster and adoptive placement resources, 
 including recruitment, licensing, and support; 

    (2) advocacy in working with the county and private social 
 service agencies, and activities to help provide access to 
 agency services; 

    (3) family and community involvement strategies to combat 
 child abuse and chronic neglect of children; 

    (4) coordinated child welfare and mental health services to 
 minority families; 

    (5) preadoption, postadoption, and foster care support 
 groups for minority children and prospective adoptive and foster 
 families; 

    (6) the use of minority foster parents as continuing 
 support for children returned to birth homes; 

    (7) information, counseling, and support groups to assist 
 minority children approaching age 18 in setting permanent goals 
 for independent living; 

    (8) minority adolescent support groups for children in 
 long-term foster care, new adoptive placements, and nonminority 
 homes where identity issues threaten the adoptive relationship 
 and adjustment; 

    (9) services listed at section 256F.07; and 

    (10) other activities and services approved by the 
 commissioner that further the goals of the minority heritage 
 preservation act. 

    HIST: 1988 c 689 art 2 s 217