Processing of adoptions and transfers of custody for children exiting foster care. Licensing relatives in emergency relative placements. Completing post adoption/transfer benefit reassessments. Providing adult and children's mental health case management.
Address:
Western Prairie Human Services
211 East Minnesota Ave.
Suite 200
Glenwood, MN 56334
I am privileged to have a vocation where I can equip and accompany people on their journey toward healing, allowing them to live a life they were created to live. The path of adoption is an area where I have experience personally and professionally. I have seen how wonderful forming a family can be as well as how difficult. I am experienced in providing therapy to children and adults for over 12 years. My training in EMDR impacts much of what I do and how I supervise other mental health professionals. I understand people thru the lens of attachment, object relations and narrative therapy.
Child welfare, adoption and permanency
Address:
Mower County
201 1st St. NE
Suite 18
Austin, MN 55912
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
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.
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
Wendy L. Baker, MSW, LICSW is co-founder of Family Circle Counseling, in St. Paul, MN. A family focused group practice with particular dedication to adoptive and foster care families and their unique and potentially intensive therapeutic needs. Wendy has over 40 years of therapeutic experience working with high needs children, teens, families and individuals of all ages with specialization in clinical work with trauma survivors who deal with issues surrounding childhood neglect, physical & sexual abuse and attachment traumas/disruptions.
Brenda L. Anderson-Powers, LSW is a Director of Transformation at the national non-profit, Alia Innovations. Team Alia are UnSysteming the child welfare system and shifting mindsets and practice to keep children safely with, not from, their families. Alia employs a community co-design approach, working alongside parents with lived expertise and innovative systems leaders as partners to co-create new solutions to longstanding problems, while supporting the wellbeing of leaders, teams, and caregivers.