THE MULLEN-POLK FOUNDATION
PROVIDING SERVICES FOR ALL CHILDREN & FAMILIES IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM
ABOUT US
OUR STORY
The Mullen-Polk Foundation reaches out across Washington State and the nation to help children who are the victims of neglect, abuse, and abandonment. Our focus is to provide services for all children and families involved in the foster care system.
Our services include: recruitment, training, licensing, placement, case management and adoption services for our foster and adoptive
Our priority will always be to provide the highest-quality care for the children placed in the homes of our foster and adoptive families.
OUR MISSION
The Mullen-Polk Foundation empowers foster youth to thrive through pathways of restorative care, community connection, programs, and services.
OUR VISION
Mullen-Polk Foundation will be the model of choice serving the growing number of foster youth in Southwest Washington.
OUR VALUES
Collaboration: Clients, Partners, Community
Access: Right, Universal Rights, Collaboration
Empowerment: Build on Self-Empowerment, Self-Determination, Leadership, Safe Space
Trauma Informed: Empathy, Compassion, Safety, Advocacy
Inclusion: Equity, Intersectionality, Social Justice
Relationships: Integrity, Diverse, Enduring
BEHAVIOR REHABILITATION SERVICES
Behavior Rehabilitation Services (BRS) is a temporary intensive wraparound support and treatment program for youth with extreme, high-level service needs used to safely stabilize youth and assist in achieving a permanent plan or a less intensive service. These services can be provided in an array of settings and are intended to safely:
• Keep and/or return the youth to their own homes with wraparound supports to the family.
• Reunify or achieve alternative permanency more quickly.
• Increase family based care by using a wraparound approach.
• Reduce length of service by transitioning to a permanent resource or less intensive service.
Our job is to assist in reducing the youth’s negative behavior patterns, increase school participation, increase community awareness, locate long term placement and increase the youth’s overall potential to reach permanency. Another emphasis of the Mullen-Polk Foundation Child Placing Agency is to develop necessary supports which would allow the youth to maintain or develop a permanent family connection and to reside in his/her own community in an identified permanent resource.
OUR TEAM
Linda Weems
Executive Director & Founder
For over fifteen years Ms. Weems has served as an advocate for individuals with behavioral and emotional diagnosis. Her vision for the Mullen-Polk Foundation, a non-profit, which she founded in 2015 for the unique purpose of assisting all youth in fulfilling their desires to live, work, and exercise their rights as productive citizens. Ms. Weems was inspired at a young age, by the important belief that every human being had the inherent right to self-fulfillment. The organization has an exceptional record for exceeding requirements to enhance the quality of service delivered throughout its programs.
Danté Jones
OUR NEXT GENERATION
CHILD PLACEMENT AGENCY
Operations Officer
Nicola Bintz
OUR NEXT GENERATION
Program Manager
Kandi Snyder
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Finance and Operations Manager
Julie Thompson
OUR NEXT GENERATION
Case Manager
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CHILD PLACEMENT AGENCY
Program Manager/Licensor/Case Manager
Stephanie Wichmann
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Case Management Clinical Consultant
COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS
Battle Ground School District
Boy's & Girls Club (Vancouver, WA)
Catholic Community Services
Children's Home Society (Vancouver, WA)
Clark County Juvenile Probation
Clark County YMCA
Community Warehouse (Portland, OR)
The Cowlitz Indian Tribe
Education Services District 112
Evergreen School District
Family Solutions
GameStop (Vancouver, WA)
Hi-School Pharmacy (Vancouver, WA)
IQ Credit Union
Molina Healthcare
Portland Housing Center
SeaMar Community Health Centers (Van. WA)
The Truth about Drugs