Jane Butterfoss & Sally Revak Juvenile Horizons Facility Saint. Paul, Minnesota	Judy Schwanke& Carleen Mokhtary MCF-Sauk Centre Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Thecla Helmbrecht-Trost St. Croix Camp Sandstone, Minnesota	Lester Mainville PORT Group Homes Brainerd Minnesota

Thanks to Mary Lynne Filaccio for her hours of research.
 

Our sincere thanks to the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition for their generosity in letting us benefit from their research and writing and for their commitment to public understanding of the law.We could not have done this without their support.
 
 

Special thanks to contributors

Marty Conaty and the students at Hennepin County Home School

Peter Knapp, Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Samuel D. Magavern, Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis

Mike Vraa, Community Action for Suburban Hennepin County

And finally a “thanks from the bottom of my heart, I’ll owe you forever,” to Debra Berghoff. Her outstanding advice and patience, as well as her ability to make the pages look good, brings tears to my eyes and joy to my heart.
 

Jennifer Bloom

Author and Editor