Kindred Family Services

At Kindred Family Services, formerly PATH Minnesota, Inc. our core belief is that youth are best served in families. We provide the support that allows youth to stay with their families or transition to a new permanent family.

At Kindred Family Services, youth...

• Are respected, their voices are heard, and their cultural needs are nurtured
• Are given the support and ability to preserve their family connections
• Find caring foster and adoptive parents who provide security, hope and permanence
• Benefit from foster parents and staff who are educated and trained in the most recent evidence-based outcome interventions
• Will have committed advocates to guide their transition to successful independent living

Programs

Therapeutic Foster Care services are available to youth with special needs, who can benefit from therapeutic support in a family setting. Each youth's specific needs are carefully assessed in order to match the youth to a foster home qualified to meet the youth's needs and establish individual treatment plans. Foster care is also available to youth wiht complex medical conditions that might otherwise require hospitalization or institutional care.

Kindred Family Services also offers supportive services to youth age 16 and older transitioning into adulthood. Services are intended to address homelessness by focusing on the psychological, emotional and concrete coping skills needed for self-sufficiency.

Alternative to Residential Treatment serves youth who need extraordinarily high levels of treatment in out-of-home placement. These programs are individually designed to make maximum use of community resources to maintain youth in a family environment.

Whole Family Foster Care is intensive support and collaborative services provided by skilled foster parents working with at-risk parents in care with their own children. The goal is to teach parenting skills through foster parent modeling, setting examples and providing education.

Adoption Services are provided through:

• child placement services
• adoption home studies and updates
• adoption training and education
• child-specific recruitment activities
• post-adoption services
• relative adoption home studies

Adoptive Partnerships reflect the collaboration between Kindred Family Services and Wendy’s Wonderful Kids. Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. All children are adoptable and deserve to live in a safe, loving and permanent family.

Supervised Visitation is available to youth and families when visitation requires monitoring for safety and documentation reasons. Visits will occur at Kindred Family Services, in the community, or in the family's home setting.

Shelter Care is available 24-hours per day, 7 days per week to youth needing immediate placement in a safe and nurturing environment. Identified Kindred Family Services foster parents are on-call to take youth into their home for short-term placement when removal from their family is necessary, usually in situations of abuse, neglect, or unsafe living conditions.

Crisis Nursery (a community based family support program ), serving Wright County, provides:

• Confidential and non-judgmental services
• 24/7 crisis helpline for parents
• Support, resources, referrals
• Short-term, temporary safe care for youth (0-12 years), day or overnight, while tending to family needs
• No charge for services
• Available to parents or legal guardians that are Wright County residents

A crisis may involve medical or mental health issues, loss of employment, job seeking, childcare problems, housing or homelessness, domestic disputes, family separation or divorce, legal issues, financial hardships, etc. We will partner with you to help find some solutions.