Way up in northwestern Minnesota, progress is being made within the Ojibwe tribes.
“It’s been a long process,” said Trisha Hansen, Bemidji District supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Corrections. “... It was a tough two years, let me tell you. Probation and social services have really worked together in the last two years.”
Since September, the traditional divisions between the systems of juvenile justice and child welfare have begun to be erased.
With a tribal nation contained within the county, the separations are doubled.
The Red Lake Nation is a sovereign American Indian entity surrounded by Beltrami County. Red Lake people use some county services, but also have their own courts and social services. Beltrami County kids are served by courts and social services based in the city of Bemidji, the county seat.
[For more of this story, written by Molly Miron, go to http://jjie.org/divisions-are-...ithin-county/108227/]
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