DEPARTMENT: Social Services-Children & Family Services
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Contract With Power Of Partnership, Inc., dba SafeGenerations, For Children And Family Practice Model And Workplace Belonging Services
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize execution of a contract with Power of Partnership, Inc., doing business as (dba) SafeGenerations, to provide practice model and workplace belonging services for Dakota County Children and Family Services.
SUMMARY
The Minnesota Legislature established the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act ("the Act") within Minn. Stat. ?? 260.61 to 260.693 with the intent of reforming child protection policies and practices to eliminate long-standing racial disparities and poor outcomes for children and families of color. Although the legislation was enacted in 2024, the statewide effective date that applies to Dakota County is January 1, 2027.
A few key provisions of the Act include:
* Requiring responsible social service agencies to provide active efforts to prevent out-of-home placement and reunify families, and to implement safety plans with specific parameters to allow children to remain in their home in most cases for all children to whom the Act applies; and
* Limiting the use of emergency removals, foster care placements and terminations of parental rights to better ensure children are not unnecessarily removed from their homes either temporarily or permanently; and
* Requiring cultural competency training for case workers, supervisors, judges, guardians ad litem and attorneys working in the child welfare system.
Dakota County Children and Family Services (CFS) released a Request for Proposal on January 23, 2026, to contract for the provision of planning, training, coaching and program development services to enact a comprehensive, culturally responsive, strengths-based child welfare practice model that:
* Includes a child s...
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