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| About Ampersand Families |
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Ampersand Families
is Minnesota’s only private agency specifically focused on meeting the permanency needs of older youth from the foster care system. Adoptive families benefit from specialized training and support to help them as they invite an older child who has experienced trauma into their family. Ampersand Families is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization and is funded by individual or corporate donors, foundations, and through the Public Private Adoption Initiative with Minnesota Department of Human Services.
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The mission of Ampersand Families is to recruit and support permanent families for older youth, and to champion practices in adoption and permanency that restore belonging, dignity and hope.
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Why are we called Ampersand Families? The symbol & is called an ampersand. It means and, and it is used to connect important ideas when we write. At Ampersand Families, and is a really important idea because it means more support, more resources, more voice for youth and families. It means more people surrounding a young person helping them to grow to take their place in the community.
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