Ampersand Families

We Find Family for Youth in Foster Care.

We prioritize relatives, kin, community, and culture as we identify caring adults who promise to be there, forever.

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We work with youth and families across Minnesota

We have helped over 500 youth join or rejoin safe, loving, permanent families

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Ampersand Families – We Find Family

Ampersand Families is an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to the long-term well-being of our state’s most vulnerable foster youth, changing the conversation around older foster youth in Minnesota. By focusing on older and hard-to-place youth in the child welfare system, Ampersand Families provides the missing support and advocacy for youth on the verge of becoming adults without supportive families or homes.

The mission of Ampersand Families is uniquely successful, walking alongside youth, families, and communities impacted by the child welfare system, with a commitment to build and restore meaningful relationships while centering and upholding a youth’s whole identity.

Since our founding in 2008, Ampersand Families has connected over 500 kids in foster care to safe, permanent families by focusing on identity and culturally affirming placements connected to the young person’s relatives, kin, community, and culture. thentic mentorship opportunities between families, monthly roundtables for peer support, and created an innovative role to continue reconnecting youth with family, kin, community, and culture post-placement.

Foster Youth Rights in Minnesota

Upcoming
Events

We host a variety of engaging, inclusive events for youth, caregivers, kinship families, pre-adoptive families, child welfare professionals, volunteers and the general public. Please join us!

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April 16
April 23

Caregiver Roundtable

For all Ampersand-affiliated adoptive, pre-adoptive, and kinship caregivers. Caregivers are invited to share their experiences and get support from other caregivers while youth participate in an activity supervised by Ampersand

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