Child Welfare Services

Our social workers engage families in partnership to enhance child and family safety, mental health, and well-being.  We are engaged in several collaborative efforts with Olmsted County Children and Family Services to offer families support to address their individualized needs. These programs include: 

Baby Steps

Social workers partner with first-time parents of newborns to address parenting risk factors, focus on child-rearing skills and provide support.

Youth Behavioral Health

Social workers partner with families faced with the challenges of raising a child and youth with severe mental health concerns. 

Educational Advocates 

Social workers partner with families and schools when children and youth are experiencing school attendance concerns. The program seeks to identify barriers and help create solutions to increase educational engagement with students between the ages of 12-17 years old.

Family Involvement Strategies (FIS)

A unique family engagement process that builds on family strengths to develop care and safety plans.

Domestic Violence Response Team (DVRT)

A specialized team of social workers who partner with families to enhance the safety and well-being of children who may be negatively impacted as a result of being within sight or sound of domestic violence.

HOPE

Social workers partner with families in the development of a plan to assist them in achieving identified goals to provide healthy, nurturing, stable homes for their children.

PACE (Parents and Children Excel)

From its inception, PACE was designed to address disparities and disproportionality that manifests in the form of negative educational outcomes for children of color