Adoption - Home Study

Betsy Trondson, MSSW, LISW

Biography

I have over 24 years of experience working in the area of adoption. I have worked with adoptive parents, adopting infants, both domestically and internationally, birth parents, and now post adoption services, primarily facilitating search and reunion services. In the early 2000’s, I did serve as one of two trainers in the state of MN, for the “Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program.”

Address:
Children’s Home/Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
1605 Eustis Street
Saint Paul, MN 55108

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Cheryl Smetana McHugh, LICSW

Biography

Therapeutic Services Agency, Inc. and staff provide a range of services including specialized foster care based on Child and Adolescent Treatment Program, In-Home Family Based Services, assessment and outpatient mental health services. For more information visit www.hoperealized.com or call 320-629-7600 or 651-224-4114.

Address:
Therapeutic Services Agency, Inc.
220 Railroad Street SE
Pine City, MN 55063

Cheryl Smetana McHugh

Kristie Kremer, MSW, LGSW

Biography

I currently work as the Adoption Social Worker at Nexus Kindred Family Healing based out of the Saint Cloud office. I provider child specific recruitment services to children waiting for adoptive families in the MN foster care system. I also provide licensing and matching services to families looking to adopt a MN waiting child.

Address:
Nexus Kindred Family Healing
412 Great Oak Drive
Waite Park, MN 56387

Kristie Kremer

Gayle Kittleson

Biography

Address:
Ramsey County
160 E. Kellogg Blvd #7000
Saint Paul, MN 55101

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Nicole Frank

She/Her/Hers
Biography

County work in CP, permanency, licensing and relative work. Always learning and changing to do what is most helpful for the children in our communities.

Address:
Stevens County Human Services
400 Colorado Ave
Suite 104
Morris, MN 56267

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Carla Evans, LICSW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

I work in a private agency providing case management to foster and pre-adoptive youth.

Address:
Nexus Kindred Family Healing
5985 Rice Creek Parkway
Shoreview, MN 55126

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Danielle Biederman

She/Her/Hers
Biography

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