The Imprint
“Understanding your legal rights, whether it’s about the care you receive or your connections to loved ones, helps Fosters and their supporters advocate more strongly for a better experience in foster care,” Minnesota’s Assistant Foster Youth Ombudsperson Hannah Planalp (above) said in an email. As a former foster youth and representative of the Office of The Foster Youth Ombudsperson, she described how critical it is to have these rights be “clear and comprehensive.”