Numbers offering an initial glimpse of how Minnesota’s new “Safe Harbor” law is working suggest that more than 150 children have sought help in the law’s first year from the Minnesota Health Department’s front line workers, called “regional navigators.”
Additionally, there were nearly 200 requests for housing or other assistance. Numbers could include duplicates because clients’ names were not shared with researchers.
The average age of a child seeking help in the Twin Cities was just under 16. In outstate Minnesota, the age was slightly younger, just over 15.
Of the children who sought help between July 2014 and July 2015, more than half came from outside the metro area.
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