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Adoption Programs - EVOLVE Family Services
Licensed adoption agency which provides help with legal adoptions. Social service and related assistance:
- Adoption support groups
- Birth parent counseling and guidance
- Bridge care for babies and children in transition
- Compliance with Minnesota and Wisconsin laws governing termination of parental rights
- Coordination and support services for United States and international adoptions
- Legal adoption (finalization) assistance
- Post adoption counseling and support
- Post placement services and reports
- Pre-adoption education and training
- Recruitment of families for child adoption
Licensed adoption agency which provides help with legal adoptions. Social service and related assistance:
- Adoption support groups
- Birth parent counseling and guidance
- Bridge care for babies and children in transition
- Compliance with Minnesota and Wisconsin laws governing termination of parental rights
- Coordination and support services for United States and international adoptions
- Legal adoption (finalization) assistance
- Post adoption counseling and support
- Post placement services and reports
- Pre-adoption education and training
- Recruitment of families for child adoption
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Adoption Services - Pennington County Social Services
Conducts home studies and placement in an adoptive home of children who are wards of the state
Conducts home studies and placement in an adoptive home of children who are wards of the state
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Adoption Services - Washington County Community Services
Provides adoption services to children in the Minnesota Waiting Children's Program and the families who adopt them. Children are available for adoption from throughout the state of Minnesota. Adoption services including placement, guardianship, home studies, and counseling for children and adoptive parents.
Provides adoption services to children in the Minnesota Waiting Children's Program and the families who adopt them. Children are available for adoption from throughout the state of Minnesota. Adoption services including placement, guardianship, home studies, and counseling for children and adoptive parents.
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Foster Care and Adoption Services - Nexus Family Healing
Provides the following services:
Adoption Services: Works to bring youth and parents together in permanent, stable family settings. All adoption services are provided free of charge and include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
Foster Care Services: Provides safe and nurturing foster homes while families work toward stability and reunification. Staff collaborate closely with each child's custodial team to support family reunification whenever possible. Services include emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster care options.
- Foster parents receive ongoing support, including training, 24/7 crisis support, and respite care.
Kinship Navigator: Provides support and connections for relative and kin families caring for children. Families first work with a Kinship Navigator who provides phone and in-person information, referrals, and assessments to identify community services such as childcare, food assistance, health services, housing, and transportation.
- When additional assistance is needed, a Case Manager partners with families to provide side-by-side support while accessing services.
Relative and Kin Support Services: Provides support for families caring for a relative's child by providing education, guidance, and connections to resources. Families may also receive assistance with obtaining foster care licensing if they wish to continue fostering kin or other children. Services include:
- Connections to local support services
- Education on mental health and youth trauma
- Help understanding the complex human services system
- Support navigating new or strained family dynamics
Supervised Visitation: Provides youth in foster care with opportunities to spend time with their families in a safe and supportive environment. Services are available within approximately a one-hour radius of Waite Park, Minnesota. Services include:
- Observation
- Parent coaching with observation
- Parent coaching without observation
- Transportation
- Virtual or phone observation
STAY Program (Successful Transition to Adulthood for Youth): Provides independent living services for eligible youth ages 14 through 23 who are currently or were formerly in foster care and who are working with a county or tribal social worker. Services support youth in meeting independent living plan goals and may vary by county. Available services may include:
- Age-appropriate activities
- Education services
- Employment services
- Independent living skills training
- Permanent connections with long-term mentors, significant individuals from the youth's past, relative searches, and contact with relatives or former foster parents
- Room and board or housing assistance
- Transportation costs
Provides the following services:
Adoption Services: Works to bring youth and parents together in permanent, stable family settings. All adoption services are provided free of charge and include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
Foster Care Services: Provides safe and nurturing foster homes while families work toward stability and reunification. Staff collaborate closely with each child's custodial team to support family reunification whenever possible. Services include emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster care options.
- Foster parents receive ongoing support, including training, 24/7 crisis support, and respite care.
Kinship Navigator: Provides support and connections for relative and kin families caring for children. Families first work with a Kinship Navigator who provides phone and in-person information, referrals, and assessments to identify community services such as childcare, food assistance, health services, housing, and transportation.
- When additional assistance is needed, a Case Manager partners with families to provide side-by-side support while accessing services.
Relative and Kin Support Services: Provides support for families caring for a relative's child by providing education, guidance, and connections to resources. Families may also receive assistance with obtaining foster care licensing if they wish to continue fostering kin or other children. Services include:
- Connections to local support services
- Education on mental health and youth trauma
- Help understanding the complex human services system
- Support navigating new or strained family dynamics
Supervised Visitation: Provides youth in foster care with opportunities to spend time with their families in a safe and supportive environment. Services are available within approximately a one-hour radius of Waite Park, Minnesota. Services include:
- Observation
- Parent coaching with observation
- Parent coaching without observation
- Transportation
- Virtual or phone observation
STAY Program (Successful Transition to Adulthood for Youth): Provides independent living services for eligible youth ages 14 through 23 who are currently or were formerly in foster care and who are working with a county or tribal social worker. Services support youth in meeting independent living plan goals and may vary by county. Available services may include:
- Age-appropriate activities
- Education services
- Employment services
- Independent living skills training
- Permanent connections with long-term mentors, significant individuals from the youth's past, relative searches, and contact with relatives or former foster parents
- Room and board or housing assistance
- Transportation costs
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Adoption Services - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota
Works to help bring kids and parents together in permanent family settings. Services include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
- Wendy's Wonderful Kids affiliate
Works to help bring kids and parents together in permanent family settings. Services include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
- Wendy's Wonderful Kids affiliate
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Adoption Services - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota
Works to help bring kids and parents together in permanent family settings. Services include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
- Wendy's Wonderful Kids affiliate
Works to help bring kids and parents together in permanent family settings. Services include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
- Wendy's Wonderful Kids affiliate
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Adoption Services - Olmsted County Child and Family Services
Adoption and Foster Care Support Group
Olmsted County sponsors a parent-led adoption support group. The group is open to the public and tailored to meet support and educational needs of foster parents, families considering adoption, or families who have adopted privately, publicly, domestically, or internationally.
Mission is to offer families a forum to receive post-adoption support that will enable them to:
- Enhance their ability to manage the complexity and lifelong process of adoption
- Form new partnerships with other adoptive families
- Learn about new resources and training
- Network with other adoptive families
- Share questions and concerns with group members
Child care provided on-site by a social worker.
Adoption Services
Provides adoption services to children in the Minnesota Waiting Children's Program and the families who seek to adopt them.
- Children who are available for adoption come from throughout the State of Minnesota and almost all of them have been removed from their biological families due to abuse or neglect
- Most waiting children are over the age of 8, many have physical and/or emotional disabilities, some are brothers and sisters who want to stay together, and many are children of color
Before becoming eligible to adopt, an individual needs to go through a licensing process.
Adoption and Foster Care Support Group
Olmsted County sponsors a parent-led adoption support group. The group is open to the public and tailored to meet support and educational needs of foster parents, families considering adoption, or families who have adopted privately, publicly, domestically, or internationally.
Mission is to offer families a forum to receive post-adoption support that will enable them to:
- Enhance their ability to manage the complexity and lifelong process of adoption
- Form new partnerships with other adoptive families
- Learn about new resources and training
- Network with other adoptive families
- Share questions and concerns with group members
Child care provided on-site by a social worker.
Adoption Services
Provides adoption services to children in the Minnesota Waiting Children's Program and the families who seek to adopt them.
- Children who are available for adoption come from throughout the State of Minnesota and almost all of them have been removed from their biological families due to abuse or neglect
- Most waiting children are over the age of 8, many have physical and/or emotional disabilities, some are brothers and sisters who want to stay together, and many are children of color
Before becoming eligible to adopt, an individual needs to go through a licensing process.
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Adoption and Guardianship Services - Chippewa County Family Services
Provides adoption/guardianship services including:
- Adoption information for interested families
- Case management for children
- Post-adoption information
Provides adoption/guardianship services including:
- Adoption information for interested families
- Case management for children
- Post-adoption information
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Adoption Services - Mower County Human Services
Provides recommendations concerning adoption and adoption placement services to children who are in the foster care system. Services include:
- Assessment of interested individuals looking to adopt
- Grandparents, relatives, or foster families looking to adopt a foster child
- Step-parent adoptions and special needs adoptions
Provides recommendations concerning adoption and adoption placement services to children who are in the foster care system. Services include:
- Assessment of interested individuals looking to adopt
- Grandparents, relatives, or foster families looking to adopt a foster child
- Step-parent adoptions and special needs adoptions
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Adoption Services - North Homes Children and Family Services
Public Private Permanency Collaboration (PPPC) funding allows agency to offer adoptive placement and child-specific services at virtually no cost
Focus on placement of MN Waiting children, youth 12 years of age and older, and sibling groups
Access to peer mentor program and post-adoption services
Provide Child-Specific Recruitment Services (CSR)
Public Private Permanency Collaboration (PPPC) funding allows agency to offer adoptive placement and child-specific services at virtually no cost
Focus on placement of MN Waiting children, youth 12 years of age and older, and sibling groups
Access to peer mentor program and post-adoption services
Provide Child-Specific Recruitment Services (CSR)
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Social Services - Lower Sioux Indian Community
Provides voluntary case management, child protection, adult protection, Indian Child Welfare (ICWA) advocacy, and children's mental health.
Enforces Native American child welfare with the ability to act independently under the provisions outlined in the Indian Child Welfare Act. Services include foster care placement, pre-adoptive placement, and adoptive placement.
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Provides voluntary case management, child protection, adult protection, Indian Child Welfare (ICWA) advocacy, and children's mental health.
Enforces Native American child welfare with the ability to act independently under the provisions outlined in the Indian Child Welfare Act. Services include foster care placement, pre-adoptive placement, and adoptive placement.
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Adoption Services - Southwest Health and Human Services
Provides services for:
- Children in the Child Protection system who are waiting to be adopted
- Families who are interested in adopting these children
Provides services for:
- Children in the Child Protection system who are waiting to be adopted
- Families who are interested in adopting these children
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Adoption Services - Lutheran Social Service - Saint Cloud
Finds permanent homes for children of all ages and backgrounds through adoption placement services, including infant, international, and special needs children. Also provides home studies and pro-life pregnancy counseling.
Finds permanent homes for children of all ages and backgrounds through adoption placement services, including infant, international, and special needs children. Also provides home studies and pro-life pregnancy counseling.
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Adoption Services - Fillmore County Community Services - Social Services
Fillmore County Community Services provides adoption services including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents.
Fillmore County Community Services provides adoption services including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents.
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Adoption Program - Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
- Find adoptive homes for Leech Lake children who are available for adoption via Child Protection
- Takes a minimum of six months to one year
- Must be licensed or eligible for licensure in Foster Care while awaiting the finalization of the adoption
- Find adoptive homes for Leech Lake children who are available for adoption via Child Protection
- Takes a minimum of six months to one year
- Must be licensed or eligible for licensure in Foster Care while awaiting the finalization of the adoption
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Adoption Services - North Homes Children and Family Services
Public Private Permanency Collaboration (PPPC) funding allows agency to offer adoptive placement and child-specific services at virtually no cost
Focus on placement of MN Waiting children, youth 12 years of age and older, and sibling groups
Access to peer mentor program and post-adoption services
Provide Child-Specific Recruitment Services (CSR)
Public Private Permanency Collaboration (PPPC) funding allows agency to offer adoptive placement and child-specific services at virtually no cost
Focus on placement of MN Waiting children, youth 12 years of age and older, and sibling groups
Access to peer mentor program and post-adoption services
Provide Child-Specific Recruitment Services (CSR)
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Adoption Services - Scott County Health and Human Services
Adoption services including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
Adoption services including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
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Adoption Services - Swift County Human Services
Adoption services including adoption searches, placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
Adoption services including adoption searches, placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
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Adoption Services - Southwest Health and Human Services
Provides services for:
- Children in the Child Protection system who are waiting to be adopted
- Families who are interested in adopting these children
Provides services for:
- Children in the Child Protection system who are waiting to be adopted
- Families who are interested in adopting these children
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Adoption Services - Human Services of Faribault and Martin Counties
Adoption services, including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
Adoption services, including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
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Adoption Services - Stearns County Human Services - Financial and Social Services Division
Provides adoptive placement services to children who are in need of an adoptive home through the use of the State Adoption Exchange.
Also able to provide referrals and information about private adoption agencies for families who are interested in adoption.
Provides adoptive placement services to children who are in need of an adoptive home through the use of the State Adoption Exchange.
Also able to provide referrals and information about private adoption agencies for families who are interested in adoption.
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Adoption Services - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota
Works to help bring kids and parents together in permanent family settings. Services include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
- Wendy's Wonderful Kids affiliate
Works to help bring kids and parents together in permanent family settings. Services include:
- Adoption home studies and home study updates
- Child placement services
- Child-specific recruitment services
- Parent training and education
- Post-adoption services
- Relative adoption services
- Wendy's Wonderful Kids affiliate
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Adoption - Minnesota Prairie County Alliance - Dodge, Steele, and Waseca County
Provides adoption case management and services to children who are under jurisdiction, (children who have become available for adoption because of a child protection process and are already in foster care.)
Provides adoption case management and services to children who are under jurisdiction, (children who have become available for adoption because of a child protection process and are already in foster care.)
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Adoption Services - Carlton County Public Health and Human Services
Adoption services including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
Adoption services including placement, guardianship, and counseling for children and adoptive parents
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Child Services - Beltrami County Health And Human Services
- Provides services to families and children
- Foster Care
- Adoptions
- Provides services to families and children
- Foster Care
- Adoptions
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Primary School Age ChildrenFamily Maintenance/ReunificationChild Abuse Reporting/Emergency ResponseAdoption Information/ReferralsPermanent Placement SupervisionAdolescentsAdoption Evaluation/PlacementCase/Care ManagementPreadolescent ChildrenPreschool Age ChildrenInfants/ToddlersFoster Homes for Dependent Children
