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About Us
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Facts
We deliver Success:
- 95% of children remained with the same treatment foster family throughout their placement with Anu Family Services.
- 90% of children in Anu’s Family-based Services avoided out-of-home placements.
- Over 60% of Anu children are adopted or reunified with their families.
Our Customer Service Commitment:
- 97% of county customers interviewed rated our service quality better than or equal to competitors.
- 93% of county customers interviewed rated our responsiveness better than or equal to competitors.
- 83% of county customers interviewed rated our value better than or equal to competitors.
History
Anu Family Services, formerly known as PATH Wisconsin, was licensed as a Child Placing Agency in the State of Wisconsin in 1992. We've have an 18 year proud history of providing innovative solutions to help create permanence, safety and well-being for children and their families. We have been nationally accredited by the “gold standard” in child welfare accreditation—The Council on Accreditation (COA)—since our inception in 1992.
Anu Family Services was originally founded as a division of our former parent company PATH, Inc. As an early founder and innovator of the national/international treatment foster care model Anu has roots as a foster parent founded and led organization. Our former parent company was founded in 1972 by a small group of foster parents who believed that professional, highly trained and involved foster parents could provide effective treatment to children with challenging behaviors in family-based settings. To this day, Anu Family Services is committed to these values and the belief that children develop best in family-based settings.
Our first locations developed in Western Wisconsin,and have expanded to a state-wide presence that ranges accross the entire state from Milwaukee to Hudson and Superior to La Crosse. Our current headquarters include: The Western Region Headquarters in Eau Claire, The Eastern Region Headquarters in Madison and The Administrative Headquarters in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Our service specialization started with treatment foster care and has expanded to service offerings in mental health, in-home family services, parent support services, parent visitation services, DeafBlind services, medically fragile foster care, respite, family-to-family mentoring, family search and engagement and more.
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Mission
We create permanent connections to loving and stable families.
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Vision
We will be the best in the world at creating permanent connections to loving and stable families, and share our expertise to improve as many lives as possible.
Values
We carry out our mission by:
- Developing flexible and innovative solutions.
- Building on strengths and welcoming differences.
- Ensuring best practices and industry leadership.
- Working with individual drive and collective passion.
- Guiding our decisions by ethics and integrity.
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Staff LeadershipTeam
Amelia Franck Meyer  , MS, MSW, LISW, CAPSW has been working as a practitioner and a manager since 1989. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Anu Family Services where she has been since 2001. Ms. Franck Meyer has experience working with children in treatment foster care, residential and group home care, and with adults and children in the areas of domestic violence, disability services, Deafness and DeafBlindness. Her special interests include social work supervision, boundaries and ethics, social policy and advocacy, and research and program evaluation.
Ms. Franck Meyer has a Masters of Social Work/Human Service Management and a Masters of Sociology/Marriage and Family. She has also earned a Graduate Certificate from the University of Minnesota in Disability Policy and Services, and she has served as an adjunct faculty member in the schools of social work, sociology and psychology at several locations including the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College. Ms. Franck Meyer serves on the National Foster Family-Based Treatment Association Board of Directors for 6 years and served a term as President in 2007.
Becky Connell , Director of Operations for Anu Family Services joined PATH Wisconsin in June of 1999 in the Western Region operations. Prior to working with PATH Becky was employed in the county social service arena since 1986 as a child protective services social worker and foster care coordinator. She has her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota with a concentration in Human Services Management and was named a Child Welfare Scholar at the University of Minnesota. Becky has over 20 years of experience in the child welfare field and is a Certified Advanced Practice Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin. Ms. Connell serves on the National Foster Family-Based Treatment Association's Board of Directors.
Mechele Judd , BS, MSSW, LCSW has been working in the child welfare field since 1992. Mechele joined Anu Family Services in 2006 and is currently the Western Region Director. Mechele has her Masters in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor’s degree in the area of Human Development and Family Living from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Mechele has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Stout since 1999 and has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in the area of child development, individual and family counseling, cultural diversity, work and family issues and child and adolescent counseling. Mechele was a supervisor at Eau Claire County from 1999-200. Mechele also has several years of experience working with youth in residential treatment and clinical experience doing in-home family therapy, as well as individual and group counseling with adolescents.
Board of Directors
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OFFICERS
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Mary Thompson
President
River Falls
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Jack Tesmer
Vice-President
Minneapolis, MN
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David
Brown
Treasurer
Belleville
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Linda
Swenson
Secretary
Eau Claire
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DIRECTORS
Sanjukta Chaudhuri
Director
Peg Gagnon
Director
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Director
Open Position
Director
Nick Smiar
Emeritus Director
ADVISORY MEMBERS
Jim Le Duc
Advisory Member
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Anu Family Services is an equal opportunity employer and provider and will not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
EMPLOYMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Position: Substitute Intervenor
SCIP (Supported Community Independent Program)
Location: Hudson, WI
See job description and application form
To Apply Contact Program Manager – Aaron Waheed – awaheed@anufs.org
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