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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

Support and assistance to foster care families by providing:

• 24-hour on-call crisis management

• Access to Village Ranch's "Continuum of Care"

• Assigned program coordinator/case manager providing weekly contact and support to the families

• Assistance in providing training and accessing community resources to meet the needs of the child and licensing requirements

• Assistance and support in addressing educational needs

• Development of placement plans, identifying goals, and monitoring progress toward goals

• Minimum of twice per month visits to the foster care homes and visits with the children in placement

Village Ranch will work collaboratively with the placing agency, families, the court system, and other individuals involved to support the child and the goals of the placement.

Foster parents provide a temporary home for children when they cannot remain in their own home. Care is given until the child's parents can resume this responsibility or until a permanent plan is made with relative or adoptive parents. Provides licensing, recruits foster parents, and training. Types of foster care:

• Family foster care

Treated as family members, these children, and teens receive full-time, short- or long-term care.

• Kinship foster care

Relatives, family friends, and those with a significant relationship with the child(ren) may be licensed to provide child foster care.

• Respite care

This program provides birth parents and foster parents with relief care for a few hours and up to a few days at a time.

Services include:

• Stable place to live in a family setting
• Treatment, maintenance, and respite levels of service are offered

The Secure unit is a twelve bed detention center. Youth must be at least 10 years old and not older than 19 years of age unless they have remained under the courts' extended juvenile jurisdiction.

• Programming is available for males and females. - Encouraged to attend school provided by ISD 318 as well as recreational activities. - Access to chemical health education and mental health services. - Consequence Based Programming - Flexible - Short or long term - Daily use of behavioral rating scales - Availability of urine analysis - Cognitive behavioral groups and individual work

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

Specialized and Whole Family Foster Care: Offers emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster services. Provides an intensive treatment program in a foster care environment for youth with specialized treatment needs. Provides support for at-risk parents. Skilled foster parents work with families to teach parenting skills through modeling parenting techniques, setting examples and providing education.

Foster parents provide a temporary home for children when they cannot remain in their own home. Care is given until the child's parents can resume this responsibility or until a permanent plan is made with relative or adoptive parents. Provides licensing, recruits foster parents, and training. Types of foster care:

• Family foster care

Treated as family members, these children, and teens receive full-time, short- or long-term care.

• Kinship foster care

Relatives, family friends, and those with a significant relationship with the child(ren) may be licensed to provide child foster care.

• Respite care

This program provides birth parents and foster parents with relief care for a few hours and up to a few days at a time.

Provides foster care and adoption, kinship/relative services, international adoption, infant adoption, pro-choice pregnancy counseling services, and post-adoption services designed to help children and families thrive

Specialized and Whole Family Foster Care: Offers emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster services. Provides an intensive treatment program in a foster care environment for youth with specialized treatment needs. Provides support for at-risk parents. Skilled foster parents work with families to teach parenting skills through modeling parenting techniques, setting examples and providing education.

Foster parents provide a temporary home for children when they cannot remain in their own home. Care is given until the child's parents can resume this responsibility or until a permanent plan is made with relative or adoptive parents. Provides licensing, recruits foster parents, and training. Types of foster care:

• Family foster care

Treated as family members, these children, and teens receive full-time, short- or long-term care.

• Kinship foster care

Relatives, family friends, and those with a significant relationship with the child(ren) may be licensed to provide child foster care.

• Respite care

This program provides birth parents and foster parents with relief care for a few hours and up to a few days at a time.

Provides residential care facilities and services such as:

• Foster homes in licensed and unlicensed settings for adults and children living with disabilities. Ongoing residential care and supportive services are individualized based on the needs of each person.

• Crisis services and respite care to children up to age 18 who are in a crisis situation and are unable to remain in their current placement. Provides structured supports to help stabilize and transition them to less restrictive models of care.

• Intermediate care facilities for individuals who have a developmental disability

• See website for locations.

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

Specialized and Whole Family Foster Care: Offers emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster services. Provides an intensive treatment program in a foster care environment for youth with specialized treatment needs. Provides support for at-risk parents. Skilled foster parents work with families to teach parenting skills through modeling parenting techniques, setting examples and providing education.

• Provides treatment Foster Care for children and adolescents in the Bemidji, Cass Lake, Greenbush, LaPorte, Lake George, Park Rapids, Blackduck, Bagley, Crookston, Northome, Roseau, Warroad and surrounding rural areas

• Need a referral from County Social Services, Probatrion, Tribal Social services

• 1/4 of foster families are Native American providing placement for Native American youth

• Individualized treatment plans and assessments

• Quarterly review with all team members

• Coordination of resources to assist child and family to achieve reunification, whenever possible

• 24 hour on-call availability by social work personnel to foster families, birth families and children

• Monthly support meetings and array of educational offerings to foster families

• Collaboration between referral service and worker allowing for better understanding and delivery of services Specialty areas of foster families include but are not limited to:

• SED population

• Sexual offenders

• Conduct Disorders

• Developmentally disabled

• Attention deficit disorder

• Oppositional defiant disorder

• Medically complex cases

• Depression

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - FAS

Specialized and Whole Family Foster Care: Offers emergency, short-term, long-term, and whole-family foster services. Provides an intensive treatment program in a foster care environment for youth with specialized treatment needs. Provides support for at-risk parents. Skilled foster parents work with families to teach parenting skills through modeling parenting techniques, setting examples and providing education.

Foster care for children and youth who are emotionally, behaviorally, or physically challenged

Provides therapeutic host homes to children and youth living with a disability who require out-of-home care, having a nurturing environment, therapeutic foster family, and supportive disability services. Services for children and youth include:

• 24 hours/7 days a week support

• Accessing community-supported services

• Choosing the design and delivery of the support they receive, as age appropriate

• Living in a supportive family setting with opportunities to engage in activities the children enjoy

• Having meaningful relationship with others including continued relationships with significant people in their lives such as their parent(s), siblings, or other extended family or community members

Court related services:

• Adaptive aids or special equipment
• Adolescent life skills training
• Family based services
• Foster care
• Placement
• Licensing
• Respite care
• Case management
• Public guardianship
• Referrals to counseling
• Transportation

Children Services include:

• Children's Mental Health
• Foster Care
• Group Home Care
• In Home Family Services
• Day Care

The Itaskin Center & Cottage 35-Day Assessment Program is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). This assessment program serves residents between the ages of 10-17 years old. Upon completion of the 35-Day Assessment Program, a Comprehensive Assessment is provided to the youth's guardian and/or treatment team. The Comprehensive Assessment aims to identify child and familial strengths, resiliencies, and opportunities for growth via a multifaceted approach, while also providing diagnoses, recommendations, and a prognosis for recovery. This multifaceted approach involves a behavioral assessment, comprehensive assessment, wellness/recreation assessment, academic assessment, health screening/physical examination. Additional assessments, as requested by individual teams, include a psychiatric assessment and/or chemical use assessment. Upon completion of the program, the assessment team will also recommend a level of care believed to most accurately represent the current needs of the youth and how best to be supported. Opportunities for individual therapy and improving coping skills are provided throughout the 35-day assessment period.

• Substitute care when it serves the best interest of the child

• May be court ordered or voluntary

• Provides services to families and children
• Foster Care
• Adoptions