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Professional Association of Treatment Homes (PATH):

pathinc.org

PATH is a nonprofit organization founded in Minneapolis in 1972 by a group of innovative foster parents and social workers who envisioned a more personalized approach to foster care for youth with special emotional, behavioral, and medical needs. They wanted these youth in family-based settings instead of more restrictive institutional placements such as hospitals, group homes, and residential treatment centers. PATH is committed to training and retaining talented and dedicated foster parents and has provided personalized care to over 20,000 children since 1972. The organization has grown into 28 offices throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Denver, Colorado.
In addition to creating an attractive, well laid out informational website for PATH, High Monkey Consulting was hired to complete a variety of other projects for them. We developed AdoptInfo.org, the website for Rural Expansion of Adoptive Communities and Homes (REACH), a federally funded initiative of PATH that helps children and youth with special needs currently living in foster care find permanent homes in rural communities. This website provides information for current and prospective parents and adoption service providers.

FosterParentNet is a collaborative program of PATH and the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) that is funded by federal grants from the Children’s Bureau. FosterParentNet hired High Monkey Consulting to develop a website devoted entirely to helping foster parents provide the best possible care to their foster children. This site offers discussion and chat groups, relevant web links, and other resources for foster parents. We also developed numerous e-learning programs for FosterParentNet, including “ How to Start a Resource Parent Support Group” and “ Drugs of Abuse - What Every Parent Needs to Know.”