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Minnesota Now and Then: Remembering the Owatonna state school, Minnesota‘s early approach to child welfare
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In the latest installment of Minnesota Now and Then — where we peek into our state’s past to better understand its present — we go back to Minnesota’s beginnings of child welfare.
Minnesota’s child welfare system has had its problems. In an expose published in 2023, the Minnesota Star Tribune uncovered a number of child deaths where the system failed to protect them from caregivers with a history of abuse or neglect.
For decades, orphans, children who were neglected, those who needed protection, would wind up in Owatonna at one of the largest institutions in the country that housed these children in need. It was called a state school and about 11,000 children spent time there from 1886 to 1946. It was a precursor to what became our current child welfare system.
For more on this history, MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with Anne Peterson, manager of the Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum in Owatonna
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