Changing. Growing. Together.
The foster care world continues to evolve, and Nexus-Kindred Family Healing continues to evolve with it. Last year, our focus on change put us in better position to help the foster youth of our communities today.
In 2019, Nexus-Kindred maintained its commitment to enhance family engagement and permanency. This was reflected through the implementation of the
Collaborative Problem-Solving model into our agency–allowing greater family voice and increased awareness of the strengths and needs of their child’s care. This past year, we put great emphasis on trauma-informed training and care with both our staff and our foster families. The youth who are referred to Nexus-Kindred have experienced many traumas, rejection, abuse and neglect in their short lives. Supporting these youth is both challenging and rewarding. Our trauma lens recognizes a youth’s history impact, supports the youth’s mental health needs, and encourages risk-taking and healing.
With the need for foster placements on the rise, we reviewed our processes and systems and identified ways we could more quickly meet that need. A new software program was implemented to manage foster parent licensing, which significantly decreased licensing time and allowed us to place youth more quickly.
Our mission to change the course of a child’s life for the better could not fully be recognized without our expert staff, dedicated foster parents, and the support of our generous donors whose contributions make this work possible.
Thank you all for your role in restoring hope and reshaping futures for so many. DR. MICHELLE K. MURRAY
CEO/President Nexus Family Healing
GEORGE HENDRICKSON Executive Director
Nexus-Kindred Family Healing
George Hendrickson Executive Director
Nexus-Kindred Family Healing Dr. Michelle K. Murray
CEO/President Nexus Family Healing
About Nexus-Kindred Family Healing
Nexus-Kindred Family Healing provides foster care, adoption, supervised visitations, and mental health services for children across Minnesota. Our staff work tirelessly to make sure every child is cared for in a safe and secure home—whether they need short-term care while a family is in transition or a permanent place to call their own. We have foster homes in over half of Minnesota’s 87 counties, and staff in 10 regions throughout the state. At Nexus-Kindred, we believe every child is worth it and every family matters. We see that each time we help a child change the course of their life, we create the potential for healthier families, stronger communities, and a better world. Simply put, changing one life changes everything.
MISSION
WH0 WE SERVE
Male 51.7% Female 48.1% Transgender >1% GENDER AGE 0-5 26.1% 6-12 32.9% 13-17 32.0% 18+ 8.9% Caucasian 41% Native American 16.7% Multiracial 17.3% Hispanic 2.7% Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander >1% African-American 21.6% RACE Other >1% Asian >1%and their families
were served in 2019
youth
Love Knows No Bounds
Nexus-Kindred foster parents Master and Anna Hinkle have been in wheelchairs for most of their lives: Master since he was 3, and Anna since she was 16. Both were the result of vehicle accidents.
Their astonishing journey began by getting licensed by Nexus-Kindred to provide foster care to traumatized youth. In their minds, they were going to start small by fostering one child and seeing how it went. Life, as they know well, doesn’t always go as planned.
Master and Anna learned that a sibling group of three children needed care. They couldn’t imagine breaking them apart, and in August 2018, welcomed the three siblings into their home. Just over a year later in December 2019, the three children officially joined the Hinkle family through adoption.
With the support of extended family, the Hinkles continue to make special memories and help their children conquer important milestones, like learning to ride a bike. Foster parents come in many shapes and forms – it is the heart and the dedication that are the common threads.
“I’m here because every child
deserves a home and to feel safe.”
– Nexus-Kindred Social Worker
newly licensed foster care
homes to provide safe
homes for children in need
40
VISION
foster homes providing
care to children
throughout Minnesota
155
youth united with safe,
loving, and welcoming
adoptive families
EXPENSES
Expenses
Program ...7,263,963
General and Administrative ...1,363,168
Fundraising ...86,909
Total ...8,714,040
Revenue
Contract Revenue ...7,669,703
Other ...3,131
Donations, Grants, Events ...560,483
Total ...8,233,317
Financials
93% 83% 16% 1% 0% 7%How Our Youth Feel
96% of youth feel safe in their foster home 91% feel their foster family believes in them
91% feel their foster family supports them even if they make mistakes
How Our Referral Agents Rate Our Services
95% satisfaction with staff effort to involve the family in treatment 93% satisfaction with collaboration with school and community 92% satisfaction with staff effort to understand child’s ethnicity 90% satisfaction with staff effort to meet the child’s needs
Board of Directors
Dr. Michelle K. Murray Chairperson Bobbi Kochevar Board Member/Director Jennifer McIntosh Board Member/Director Paula Minske Board Member/Director Scott McGuire Board Member/Director Margaret Vimont Board Member/DirectorVALUES
“I am extremely happy and feel lucky to have had your
help on our adoption journey. I’ve waited 20 years to
become a mother.”
ILLINOIS
Nexus-Indian Oaks Family Healing
101 N. Bramble Street
Nexus-Kindred Admin Office
103 Marty Drive, Suite 201 Buffalo, MN 55313 763-271-1670
Nexus-Kindred Northeast Region
1302 Cloquet Avenue Cloquet, MN 55720 218-722-6106
Nexus-Kindred Central Region
BRAINERD
17025 Commercial Park Road, Suite 6 Brainerd, MN 56401
218-828-3900
Manteno, IL 60950 815-802-3700
Nexus-Onarga Family Healing
110 North Locust Street Onarga, IL 60955 815-268-4001
MARYLAND
Nexus-Woodbourne Family Healing
1301 Woodbourne Avenue Baltimore, MD 21239 410-433-1000
MINNESOTA
Nexus-FACTS Family Healing
1385 Mendota Heights Rd., Suite 200 Mendota Heights, MN 55120 651-379-9800
Nexus-Gerard Family Healing
1111 28th Street NE Austin, MN 55912 507-433-1843
Nexus-Kindred Family Healing
103 Marty Drive, Suite 201 763-271-1670
Nexus-Mille Lacs Family Healing
407 130th Avenue South Onamia, MN 56359 320-532-4005
NORTH DAKOTA
Nexus-PATH Family Healing
1202 Westrac Drive, Suite 400 Fargo, ND 58103
701-280-9545
Whatever your needs, Nexus Family Healing is here to help. Learn more at NexusFamilyHealing.org or contact any of our locations directly. Let’s start the journey of healing. Together.
No child is ever beyond hope.
NEXUS FAMILY HEALING | 505 HWY 169 NORTH, SUITE 500, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55441 | 763.551.8640 | NEXUSFAMILYHEALING.ORG
Nexus-Kindred Metro Region
5985 Rice Creek Parkway, Suite 202 Shoreview, MN 55126
612-331-4429
Nexus-Kindred Northwest Region
FERGUS FALLS
220 West Washington Avenue, Suite B2 Fergus Falls, MN 56537
218-739-3074
BEMIDJI - All calls and mailings can be sent to Fergus Falls
MANKATO P.O. Box 4081 Mankato, MN 56002 507-401-7850
Nexus-Kindred Southern Region
ROCHESTER
1700 North Broadway, Suite 160 Rochester, MN 55906
507-923-4030
WINDOM 507-735-2369 ST. CLOUD
412 Great Oak Drive Waite Park, MN 56387 320-529-0862
No child is ever beyond hope.
Nexus-Kindred Family Healing is part of Nexus Family Healing, a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 45 years of restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient/community
mental health services, foster care and adoption, and residential treatment. Whatever your needs, Nexus Family Healing is here to help. Learn more at NexusFamilyHealing.org.
