Children’s Home

• Agency-specific education
• Home studies and home study updates
• Relative/kinship outreach
• Relative/kinship home studies and home study updates
• Placement
• Child-specific recruitment
• Post-adoption services
• Innovative Family Finding Services

Pre-Adoption and Foster Care Training: Children’s Home provides centralized 16-hour pre-adoption education to prepare families who intend to parent a child or children under guardianship in Minnesota. The training is offered in three formats – online, hybrid, and in-person – and includes additional training opportunities for one year following the completion of the initial 16-hour course. Children’s Home also hosts live quarterly Deeper Dive webinars to expand on topics introduced in the pre-adoption training. For more information visit Children’s Home Foster Care Adoption Education Classes.

Peer Support and Support Groups: Children’s Home offers support groups for foster and adoptive caregivers, adoptees, and birth parents to connect and receive support. Support groups include: LGBTQ+ Caregivers; Search & Reunion; Adopted Adults; Parents of Adopted Adults. To learn more, visit Children’s Home – Support Groups.

Online Adoptee Community: Children’s Home runs a private Facebook group for adult adoptees to discuss adoption-related topics, share resources, and build community, and is open to any Minnesota resident. The group is monitored by a Children’s Home staff member who is also an adult adoptee. To access the online community visit Children’s Home – Post Adoption.

Openness Consultation Service: Children’s Home offers the Openness Consultation Service to assist members of the adoption triad navigate situations in which they are contemplating openness with another member of the triad, or are wanting guidance with specific interactions. Participants receive a consultation and up to six sessions of applicable coaching.
Follow the link to learn more: Openness Consultation Service

Community Closet & Material Support to Relative and Kin: Children’s Home offers a community closet to relative/kinship caregivers who have formal placement of a relative/kin child, informal placement of a relative/kin child, or have a finalized adoption or TPLPC of a relative/kin child. Service is available through internal referral only. To learn more visit https://chlss.org/donate/community-closet/. To learn more about kinship family support services, please contact sam.rex@chlss.org or call 651-255-2212.