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Foster Care - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota

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.

What's Here

Family Preservation Programs
Foster Children
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
At Risk Families
Foster Parents
At Risk Youth
Therapeutic Foster Homes

Foster Care - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota

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.

What's Here

Family Preservation Programs
Foster Children
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
At Risk Families
Foster Parents
At Risk Youth
Therapeutic Foster Homes

Growing Kinship Connection (GKC) - Family Rise Together

Program aims to reduce risk factors and increases protective factors for children and youth by: - Connecting children with positive adults (Kin caregivers) - Educating and providing resources to relatives to navigate the complex system - Increase formal and informal placement with relatives and paternal family - Provide culturally specific training, such as 24/7 Dad's AM/PM curriculum, etc. - Provide equitable case management services Services including: - Education: Helps educate and empower families to better navigate the complexities of the system. Provides resources that focus on navigating the court system and becoming a better parent, with an emphasis on fathers/father figures. - Family Mentorship: Program replaces traditional case management by recognizing the oppression built into "managing family affairs". Mentors work with alongside families to educate, provide resources (i.e. swag bags, resource guides), and nurture familial bonds for improving the well-being of children and families. This service is currently offered in Saint Louis County. - National Relative Search: Offers a relative search service to GKC families actively working with. This allows the family mentor to identify possible relatives across state lines to determine possible placement options and nurture familial connections. - Support Groups: Provides a peer-to-peer support, for fathers and male care givers in south Saint Louis County

What's Here

Support Groups
Case/Care Management
Families With Children
Guardians
Kinship Care
Men
Foster Parents
Children
Kinship Caregivers

Foster Care Services - Village Ranch

Support and assistance to foster care families by providing: - Assigned program coordinator/case manager providing weekly contact and support to the families - 24-hour on-call crisis management - Access to Village Ranch's "Continuum of Care" - Minimum of twice per month visits to the foster care homes and visits with the children in placement - Development of placement plans, identifying goals, and monitoring progress toward goals - 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 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.

What's Here

Preadoptive Foster Care
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Parents
Foster Children
Case/Care Management
Adoption/Foster Care/Kinship Care Issues
Foster Home Placement

Mental Health Counseling - Lion Youth and Community Services

Offers a range of mental health services to help clients integrate mental health into their overall wellness. Programs that address: - Adolescent support group - African American adolescent services - Difficult life transitions - Domestic violence for heterosexual couples - Family Counseling - Foster care and adoption support for children and adoptive families - Masculinity and manhood - Raising bi-racial children Individual counseling to address: - Adolescent adjustment -transition to adulthood - Alcohol tobacco and other drug addiction prevention and education - Anger/assertiveness - Cognitive restructuring - Grief and loss - Mood disorders - Trauma (related to abuse, abandonment, neglect, and trauma)

What's Here

Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Anger Management
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Individual Counseling
Family Counseling
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Foster Parents
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
African American Community
Mixed Heritage
Foster Children
Young Adults
Mood Disorders
Adoption/Foster Care/Kinship Care Issues
Males
Youth/Student Support Groups

Foster Care - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota

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.

What's Here

Family Preservation Programs
Foster Children
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
At Risk Families
Foster Parents
At Risk Youth
Therapeutic Foster Homes

Foster Care - Nexus-Kindred Family Healing - Central Minnesota

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.

What's Here

Family Preservation Programs
Foster Children
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
At Risk Families
Foster Parents
At Risk Youth
Therapeutic Foster Homes

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