East Central

Mariah has her Bachelor's of Social Work degree from Southwest Minnesota State University and she is a licensed social worker. Mariah formerly worked as a child protection social worker and supervisor for Southwest Health and Human Services. Currently, Mariah is a Post-Permanency Navigator with Foster Adopt Minnesota. Her role is to provide resources and answer questions that arise for families after the finalization of an adoption or transfer of permanent legal and physical custody (TPLPC).

I am an Adoption and Child Foster Care licensing social worker in a county setting. I have worked in the Children's Services unit for 10 year, but the last seven focusing on licensing and adoption. I also provide some Child Protection Case Management services. I work on a variety of cases from reunification to post TPR to finalizing an adoption. Along with this, I license and case manage our traditional and corporate child foster homes in our county.

Child welfare policy reform, legal services for parents and relatives/kin in juvenile protection matters.

I’m a therapist who specializes in working with individuals going through life transitions (becoming parent, job changes, graduating college) and families touched by adoption, including birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees. I bring experience from both the clinical side and the child welfare world, and I love helping people of all ages feel seen and supported. I am an adoptive parent myself and with adoption in my family of origin.

I provide Concurrent Planning and Special Needs Adoption case work within the county system. I am responsible for locating permanency options and completing adoptions post TPR. I provide support to foster, birth and adoptive families.

Address:
531 Dewey St.
P.O. Box 740
Foley, MN 56329