Foster Care Policy

Neree's home is filled with biological, adopted and foster children. She has worked in various areas of child development and child welfare for more than 20 years, and mentors former foster youth on their own parenting journeys. She currently works in child welfare transformation, shifting system thinking about trauma, worthiness, race, and wellbeing while supporting agencies to find and/or maintain permanency for youth under their jurisdiction.

I have 15 years of child welfare experience working as an Independent Living Skills Counselor with youth in long-term foster care, a child protection social worker, a child crisis social worker and a therapist. I am currently a Human Service Program Consultant at the MN Department of Human Services where I provide foster care policy technical assistance to MN County and tribal child welfare agencies.

Address:
Minnesota Department of Human Services
444 Lafayette Rd. N
Saint Paul, MN 55155