Ellie Smith, LICSW
Mental Health Professional providing outpatient mental health services to children and families. Lead therapist in developmental repair day treatment room.
Address:
Fraser
2400 W 64th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55423
Mental Health Professional providing outpatient mental health services to children and families. Lead therapist in developmental repair day treatment room.
Address:
Fraser
2400 W 64th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55423
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
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
I am the foster care program manager at EVOLVE Family Services. We do home study assessments and license both traditional and kinship foster providers as well as provide post-placement support. Our agency also does work in adoption and permanency, youth services, and pregnancy services. I am a transracial and transnational adoptee. I have previously held roles in supervised parenting, domestic violence case management and advocacy, and psychotherapy.
Address:
5850 Omaha Ave. N.
Stillwater, MN 55082
Address:
14955 Galaxie Ave.
Apple Valley, MN 55124
I am an outpatient therapist, working with children, adolescents, and young adults. I have 5+ years of experience as a therapist, and I have experience working in day treatment and intensive outpatient settings. I utilize a strengths-based, attachment-based, and trauma-focused lens when working with clients and their families. I highly value collaboration with clients and their families together, as well as professional collaboration and consultation.
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.
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.
Hi! I am Teresa, a clinical social worker who is passionate about supporting adoptees, first/birth families and adoptive families. I am an adoptive parent with extensive experience supporting my child through relational trauma, transitions, neurodevelopment differences and sensory. I also have a long professional history of supporting family reunification, birth parent rights, open permanency set ups and culturally appropriate permanency outcomes.
HELP Program Specialist with over a decade of direct work experience in Child Welfare in five Midwestern states; specifically in foster care, adoption (foster care/ international/ domestic infant), foster care licensing, crisis intervention, and school social work.
Address:
Foster Adopt Minnesota
2446 University Ave. W
Suite 140
Minneapolis, MN 55114