Kindred Family Focus foster care programs serve boys and girls, ages birth through 21, who can benefit from support in a family setting. Each youth's specific needs are carefully assessed. Then they are matched to a foster home that can meet their special needs through an individualized treatment plan.
Kindred Family Focus is also a private, non-profit adoption agency designated by the Minnesota Department of Human Services to license adoptive homes and place youth who are under state or tribal guardianship for the purpose of adoption.
Kindred Family Focus collaborates with counties or tribal agencies to plan for adoption services specific to Minnesota's Waiting Children and families. As an agency under contract with the state, Kindred Family Focus offers adoption services at no cost to families and counties or tribal agencies. The adoption program serving Minnesota Waiting Children is supported by funding through the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
If you are looking to foster or adopt a child, please contact us today.
Youth Served: Short-term placement when a child must be removed from the home because of abuse, neglect, or unsafe living conditions.
Youth Served: Short-term relief for families of youth with emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs.
Youth Served: Intensive support and collaborative services for at-risk parents.
Youth Served: This is an alternative foster care placement with increased supervision for youth who are transitioning out of residential treatment, or as a least-restrictive option in place of residential treatment.
Youth Served: This program places youth, ages birth to 21, who have medically fragile conditions with foster parents who are specially trained to care for them in a foster care setting. Youth in this program can be placed in Foster Care or ART.
Youth Served: This program provides foster care for males, ages birth to 21, who are charged with a sexual offense, have self-admitted sexual issues, have completed sex offender treatment, or have unhealthy sexual behaviors. Youth in this program can be placed in ART or Specialized Foster Care.
Youth Served: Youth who need permanent placement in a safe, loving home.
Wendy's Wonderful Kids is making a difference for thousands of children through adoption – one child at a time. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption awards grants to public and private adoption agencies to hire adoption professionals who implement proactive, child-focused recruitment programs targeted exclusively on moving America's longest-waiting children from foster care into adoptive families. These professionals, known as Wendy's Wonderful Kids recruiters, work on caseloads of children the system has forgotten, ensuring they have the time and resources to give each child as much attention as he or she deserves. These recruiters employ aggressive practices and proven tactics focused on finding the best home for a child through the starting points of familiar circles of family, friends, and neighbors, and then reaching out to the communities in which we live.
The children served by the Wendy's Wonderful Kids program are typically those who have been waiting the longest for an adoptive family and home. By the time they are referred to a Wendy's Wonderful Kids recruiter, nearly 70% are older than age 8, 30% have had six or more placements, and 50% have been in foster care more than four years. Some have never had a plan of adoption and have simply been on a track to age out of foster care at age 18 or 21 without the security and love of a permanent family.
Learn more about Wendy's Wonderful Kids here: www.davethomasfoundation.org
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