Permanency Services*

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

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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

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.

Melissa Batalden Mendez

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

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