Child protection
Reporting
To report concerns about child abuse, neglect or sexual abuse, contact during business hours the county or reservation where the child lives. If the child is in immediate risk of harm, please contact your local law enforcement agency or dial 911.
State policy and practice questions
651-431-4661
Minnesota Rapid Child Welfare Consultation and Support System
To access experienced peer counselors regarding difficult child safety and maltreatment decisions with child welfare colleagues within 24 hours of the requesting agency initiating contact.
Foster care
Foster care
Questions about placement decisions, relative search and notice, case planning, visitation, permanency planning, and other policy concerns.
Forgotten Children's Fund
Reimbursement for expenses such as bikes, class rings, sports equipment and driver's education.
Adolescent services
Education and Training Vouchers
Offers help to current or former foster youth to pay for post-secondary education.
651-431-4663
Support for Emancipation and Living Functionally (SELF)
Helps youth between ages 14 to 21 prepare for a successful transition to adulthood.
651-431-4686
Minor Parent Reporting
For questions about reporting by hospitals of births to minors and connecting mothers to case managers.
651-431-4685
Healthy Transition and Homeless Prevention
Helps youth, ages 14 to 21, transition from foster care to adulthood and prevent homelessness.
651-431-4707
Adoption and kinship
Adoption and kinship
Partner with county social services agencies, tribal and private agencies, county attorneys, guardians ad litem, courts and others to provide services to children under guardianship of the commissioner of the Department of Human Services.
651-431-4656
Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC)
The mechanism we have to ensure protection and services to children who are placed across state lines for foster care, adoption, parental, relative and residential placements.
651-431-4727
Federal Express address: 444 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN 55155
Child Safety and Permanency Division
