Watching the Watchers: An Examination of the Minnesota Office of Ombudsperson for Families and Recommended Reforms to Expand Ombudsperson Services for Minnesota Foster Youth
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Watching the Watchers: An Examination of the Minnesota Office of Ombudsperson for Families and Recommended Reforms to Expand Ombudsperson Services for Minnesota Foster Youth
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2021-05-13
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Our team of four graduate students from the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, in partnership with Foster Advocates of Minnesota, evaluated the current capacity of the Minnesota Office of Ombudsperson for Families (OBFF) to serve foster youth. Foster children and youth in Minnesota are vulnerable to cracks in the child welfare system, and are disproportionately at risk of homelessness, disruption to education, poor mental health, and
adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Through our research of states with both children and family ombudspeople, as well as foster youth ombudspersons, we found that foster youth in Minnesota currently lack access to the OBFF, and may benefit from having an ombudsperson
equipped to investigate their specific complaints and to advocate for systems change on their behalf.
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Capstone paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree, the Master of Public Policy degree, and the Master of Human Rights degree.
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Flax, Samantha; Gomez, Jerica; Vijayasarathy, Suriya; Zaffiro, Emily. (2021). Watching the Watchers: An Examination of the Minnesota Office of Ombudsperson for Families and Recommended Reforms to Expand Ombudsperson Services for Minnesota Foster Youth. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/221964.
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