Adolescents

Ashley Chase, MSW

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Biography

I am a permanency social worker for St. Louis County. My current caseload includes kinship, adoption, guardianship and extended foster care. I also am a back-up petition writer. Prior to switching to this role in August of 2023, I did ongoing case management in child protection for 6.5 years.

Address:
St. Louis County
1814 14th Ave E
Hibbing, MN 55746

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Hannah Burton, MSW, LISW, JD

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

Hannah Burton

Sarah Brunner, MSW, LICSW

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I work in Child Welfare as a Social Work Unit Supervisor in Ongoing Child Protection.

Address:
Hennepin County
300 South 6th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55487

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Miranda Barker, LICSW, LCSW

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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.

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Brady Brecht

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Processing of adoptions and transfers of custody for children exiting foster care. Licensing relatives in emergency relative placements. Completing post adoption/transfer benefit reassessments. Providing adult and children's mental health case management.

Address:
Western Prairie Human Services
211 East Minnesota Ave.
Suite 200
Glenwood, MN 56334

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Sharon Bonnett, MSW, LICSW, RPT

Biography

I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist providing therapeutic services for children, adolescents and families. I received my Bachelors Degree in Social Work from Bethel University, St. Paul, a Masters of Social Work from Minnesota State University, Mankato . I am passionate about helping children and families work together toward positive change and healing.

Sharon Bonnett

Nina Blazevic, LSW, BSW

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Child welfare, adoption and permanency

Address:
Mower County
201 1st St. NE
Suite 18
Austin, MN 55912

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Danielle Biederman

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Permanency Worker- focusing on adoptions, transfer of permanency and legal custody (TPLPC), adoption disruptions/dissolutions, and statewards.

Address:
Olmsted County Health Housing and Human Services
2117 Campus Drive SE
Rochester, MN 55904

Danielle Biederman

Kaysie Bergum, MSW, LICSW

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Biography

I have been working as an Adoption Resource Worker with HI have worked in the area of Permanency with Hennepin County since 2019. Currently, my title is Permanency Resource Worker (PRW) where I support children 0-18 who are in foster care. In this role, I help children achieve permanency by supporting paths toward a Transfer of Permanency Legal and Physical custody (TPLPC) or adoption when concurrent permanency planning is necessary.  ennepin County since 2019.

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Megan Benedict, LICSW

Biography

Attended Winona State University for a Bachelors in Social Work and minor in Child Advocacy Studies. Attended University of South Dakota for a Masters in Social Work. I previously worked at the Human Services Center in Yankton, SD on the long term adolescent unit and did Child Protection/Adoptions/Children’s Mental Health Case Management for a county prior to working with children at Western Mental Health Center.

Address:
Western Mental Health Center
1212 East College Drive
Marshall, MN 56258

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