Staff Fun Facts
This staff member worked at a Drive In all throughout high school
Who is Holly?
This is the number of families currently being served through EVOLVE's adoption program.
What is 81?
This foster care team member started at EVOLVE in October 2021
Who is Cori?
What is Unity?
EVOLVE operates on these 4 social media platforms.
What are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Linked In?
This staff member started an all girls/femmes football team in high school out of spite from being excluding from the school's team.
Who is Julia?
EVOLVE's pregnancy program is one of the few programs in MN or WI to offer this.
What is All Options Counseling?
These two positions are currently open on the foster care team.
What are Foster Care Family Worker and Foster Care Program Manager?
This is EVOLVE's support group for parents of adopted and foster care youth, offered one Tuesday per month.
What is Proactive Parenting?
EVOLVE has partnered with these restaurants for our new fundraising effort, Eat with Evolve, starting in December (name 2 of 4).
What are Chipotle, Panera, Stalk and Spade, and Noodles and Company?
This staff member appeared under the pseudonym, Baby Doe, in a medical textbook for a surgery that they received at 1 year old.
Who is Jack?
As of 2019, EVOLVE's Pregnancy services program collects these to support our clients?
What are baby supplies?
This foster care team member started with EVOLVE in 2016
Who is Holly?
This state gave EVOLVE the impetus and prototype to start UMOJA.
What is Wisconsin?
This process is conducted for each employee on or near their employment anniversary.
What is an annual performance review?
This staff member started out as a nursing major in college, and switched during their last year.
Who is Brooke?
EVOLVE's local adoption program is unique because it requires birth families to be willing to do this.
What is be open to a fully open adoption and contact agreement with birth parents?
These are two forms of permanency if reunification is not possible for children in foster care
EVOLVE's clinical team has contracts with this county to provide in home therapeutic services with families involved in Child Protection.
What is Dakota County?
EVOLVE staff receive this many floating holidays per year, renewed at the beginning of the calendar year.
What are 4?
This staff member lived in three different countries during the first three years of their life.
Who is Cloe?
As of 2019, EVOLVE's adoption workers are certified as this, which helps families gain access to health insurance.
What is MNSure Certified Application Counselors?
This fund has helped cover some of the costs for extracurricular activities and supplemental needs for children in care.
What is the Anne McManus Fund?
All of EVOLVE's outpatient therapists are able to accept these insurance providers (name 3).
What are MA, Preferred One, Health Partners, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), Hennepin Health and Ucare?
EVOLVE's largest Philanthropic funder
Who is Otto Bremer Foundation?