Sarah Brunner, MSW, LICSW
She/Her/Hers
Biography
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
Adults
Miranda Barker, LICSW, LCSW
She/Her/Hers
Biography
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.
Brady Brecht
He/Him/His
Biography
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
Brad Bonnett, LMFT
Biography
I am privileged to have a vocation where I can equip and accompany people on their journey toward healing, allowing them to live a life they were created to live. The path of adoption is an area where I have experience personally and professionally. I have seen how wonderful forming a family can be as well as how difficult. I am experienced in providing therapy to children and adults for over 12 years. My training in EMDR impacts much of what I do and how I supervise other mental health professionals. I understand people thru the lens of attachment, object relations and narrative therapy.
Tiffany Bobendrier, MA, LPC
She/Her/Hers
Biography
Tiffany Bobendrier believes that humans are made to thrive in healthy relationships. With a focus on attachment, she sincerely desires that her clients feel safe, seen and secure while they take the courageous steps needed towards growth in their personal lives.
Nina Blazevic, LSW, BSW
She/Her/Hers
Biography
Child welfare, adoption and permanency
Address:
Mower County
201 1st St. NE
Suite 18
Austin, MN 55912
Sarah Bello, MSW, LISW
Biography
Sarah Bello, MSW, LISW has been in the field of social work since 2009, drawn into the work through her own lived experience.
Melissa Batalden Mendez, MSW, LICSW
Biography
Melissa joined the University of Minnesota School of Social Work’s Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) in February 2013 as the Title IV-E Child Welfare Field Coordinator. In this role, she works directly with the IV-E MSW scholars who are focusing their studies and field experiences in child welfare practice, and with public and private agencies that provide child welfare services.
Christina Bast, MSW, LICSW
Biography
I believe that working with adoptees should include their whole family, as adoption is a whole-family experience. I practice from a strengths and systems theoretical perspective, and see relationships as the key to therapeutic progress.
Address:
Fraser
6458 City West Parkway
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Lindsey Bartosch, LSW, BSW
Biography
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