County Child-welfare Setting

Kristin Weber, LGSW

Biography

Ongoing child protection worker at St Louis County PHHS in Duluth, MN for over six years. Prior to that, I was a foster care and adoption case manager for a nonprofit/private child welfare Agency for four years. 

Address:
St. Louis County PHHS
320 W 2nd St.
Duluth, MN 55802

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Emma Daugherty, MSW, LGSW

Biography

I am currently a Adoptions Case Manager in a county setting. My role includes partnering with caregivers, coordinating services, and promoting child safety and well-being. I am responsible for locating permanency options and completing adoptions post TPR.v

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Abigail Kamm, MSW, LICSW

Biography

Abby is currently a Child Protection and Adoptions Case Manager in a county setting. Her role includes partnering with caregivers, coordinating services, and promoting child safety and well-being. When children are not able to be reunified with their birth parents, Abby supports children and families through permanency.

Address:
Sherburne County Health and Human Services
13880 Business Center Drive NW
Elk River, MN, 55330
 

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Jordan MacDonald, BA

Biography

Jordan MacDonald is a Children’s Mental Health and Post‑Permanency Social Worker in a county setting. Jordan’s work centers on helping families adjust to new permanency arrangements by providing services, support, and resources to those navigating recent adoptions or transfers of custody. Jordan offers trauma‑informed guidance while connecting families with therapeutic, educational, and community supports. 

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Kristen Wolfs

Biography

Child protection through CHIPS, child welfare to support family preservation, permanency and post permanency, adoption and transfer of custody as well as extended foster care services.

Address:
Mower County Health and Human Services
201 1st Street NE Suite 18
Austin, MN 55912

Kristen Wolfs

Deirdre Otis, MA, MSW, LGSW

Biography

Deirdre Otis is a licensed social worker with broad experience across child welfare, school-based, and healthcare settings. She earned her undergraduate degree from the College of Saint Benedict and her Master of Social Work from Saint Catherine University, where her academic focus included grief counseling and child welfare. She also completed a clinical internship utilizing the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), strengthening her trauma-informed practice.

Deirdre Otis

Krista Skaalen, BSW

Biography

I am a child welfare/Permanency social worker in a county human services setting, with a primary focus on achieving permanency for children involved in the child welfare system. My work includes supporting foster care and kinship placements, coordinating services, and guiding families through the permanency process, including reunification and adoption.

Krista Skaalen

Kara Goehring

Biography

Enhancing the well-being of families in our community by addressing the safety and well-being needs of the individuals, family, and community which includes but is not limited to: connecting individuals and families to resources, advocating for clients and my community, and practicing with cultural competence.

Address:
Cass County Health, Human and Veterans Services
400 Michigan Ave W.
Walker, MN 56484

Kara Goehring