Today we are sharing some of the local Minnesota National Adoption Month events. November 13, 2014 - join Kindred Family Focus for a National Adoption Month story time from 10am-12 noon at Great River Regional Library. More information is available here. November 15, 2014 - Potluck lunch celebration for families sponsored by Catholic Charities Winona [...]
Voice for Adoption is hosting its annual Congressional Program Celebrating Adoptive Families During National Adoption Awareness Month celebration on November 12, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Each year for National Adoption Awareness month, Voice for Adoption hosts the Adoptive Family Portrait Project. For this project, families that have adopted children from foster care are honored. This [...]
Wunderlust Productions, a local theater company in Minnesota, is creating a play about adoption and wants to hear from those who have been personally impacted by adoption. They invite adopted individuals, birth parents and adoptive parents to be a part of story circles. About the Project: We are working on the creation of a new [...]
National Adoption Month banner, taken from the National Adoption Month website Today is the start of National Adoption Month, and all month long we will be blogging about adoption with a particular focus on promoting permanency for children and youth in foster care. To begin, we start today with a link to the National Adoption [...]
Due to great interest, the Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate (PACC) program is currently accepting registration for a SECOND cohort to start this September, 2014. The first Twin Cities cohort filled quickly so register today if you're interested! The second site will be located in the south metro area (Chaska or surrounding area). The PACC [...]
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2014-2015 Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate program. The two cohorts for 2014-2015 will be located in the Twin Cities metro area and Marshall, MN. Successful graduates of the PACC will be listed on a searchable database where families, agencies, and other professionals can search for adoption-competent providers. The [...]
Today's guest blogger is Steve Schirlbauer The article I summarized is entitled "Adoption payment hike could get more Minnesota kids in permanent homes" written by Jeremy Olson of the Star Tribune on March 13, 2013. Description Minnesota provides monthly compensation to families providing foster care or adopting children whose birth parent’s parental rights have been [...]
Today's guest blogger is Ashley Booker. The article “Stopping the Foster Care to Child Trafficking Pipeline” by Malika Saada Saar was posted on the Huffington Post October of 2013 (Saar, 2013). The article began with Saar sharing that most of the children being sexually exploited in the United States are children who have been involved with [...]
