COMPREHENSIVE PERMANENCY SERVICES

Family-centered support for permanent families

• Pre-adoption training, home study services and support for families planning to adopt an older youth
• Transition planning and implementation, as well as proactive post-placement support
• Resources to facilitate birth family contact or involvement
• On-going training for adoptive and support families

Youth-centered support to achieve permanency

• Permanency Reviews, including birth family and search
• Child-specific recruitment emphasizing the active engagement of youth to achieve permanency
• Life book development and other information-sharing to promote permanency
• Adolescent-competent preparation and support for permanency

EDUCATION AND CONSULTATION

• Family and youth leadership development for child welfare systems change
• Consultation and customized training for public and private agencies, locally and nationally
• Minnesota Heart Gallery: providing free professional portraits to assist recruitment efforts for any Minnesota youth in need of a permanent family