You are invited to join a stakeholder meeting for the Permanency Support Services programs. Permanency Support Services is intended to provide services that help families support and care for children and youth who have been adopted, or are in foster care placement or kinship care.

Program service recipients are children and youth in adoption, foster care, and kinship placements and adoptive, foster, and kinship families in Minnesota. Services may include:

·         Information and referral services

·         Parent-to-parent support networks

·         Family activities

·         Crisis services

·         Mental health services for children and youth in adoption

·         Peer support for youth

·         Respite care

·         Educational support.

Services may also include trainings offered statewide in Minnesota for foster, adoptive, and kinship families, and the professionals who serve the families, on the effects of trauma, common disabilities of adopted children and children in foster care and kinship placements, and challenges in adoption, foster care, and kinship placements.

Stakeholder meeting with county agency professionals

Attend a meeting for county agency professionals to discuss the needs of the community for the Permanency Support Services program in preparation for a request for proposal. 

April 4, 2022, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Registration link: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscuispzIoE9SpwzEjNDZYxhoBwdHp4MtK

Stakeholder meeting with tribal agency professionals

Attend a meeting for Tribal agency professionals to discuss the needs of the community for the Permanency Support Services program in preparation for a request for proposal. 

April 5, 2022, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Registration link: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpfuivqDMvGdb3BVh-t1FL9M2LOGEBJfpv

Stakeholder meeting with foster, adoptive and kinship families

Attend a meeting for foster, adoptive and kinship families to discuss the needs of the community for the Permanency Support Services program in preparation for a request for proposal. 

April 6, 2022, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Registration link: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElf-uuqT4uE9K5mh1PDT5-dD2KM_zj_FcI

Stakeholder meeting with private child placing agencies

Attend a meeting for private child-placing agencies to discuss the needs of the community for the Permanency Support Services program in preparation for a request For proposal. 

April 6, 2022, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Registration link: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrc-2tqjoqHNM4rmMi2lhX2SUhKr9lcdpF

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

A list of current services and contracts are listed on the Permanency support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families (DHS-4925) fact sheet.

For more information, please contact Crystal Graves at crystal.graves@state.mn.us.