Today's Guest Blogger is Hung Tran. In 2015, BuzzFeed News investigation published the article, Fostering Profits, in which they examined the nation’s largest for-profit foster care company, National Mentor Holdings. What they found was that this was a company that has helped transform the field of foster care into a “cash cow,” with current placement [...]
The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection last met on February 25 and current statute authorizing the task force states that its work will end as of the end of the 2016 legislative session. It appears that the legislature will approve the bill requesting that this sunset be eliminated. In the Senate bill, it is [...]
Today's Guest Blogger is Peter Holmlund-Fluker. Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the University of Massachusetts Amherst present the findings of their study on microaggressions experienced by preadolescent youth being raised by same-sex parents in the article, “Microaggressions, Feelings of Difference, and Resilience Among Adopted Children with Sexual Minority Parents.” Published in the September [...]
Today's Guest Blogger is Sheena Pruitt. Huffington Post published an article by Mirah Riben titled “The Insensitivity of Adoption Day Celebrations”. Riben’s article takes a critical look at not only adoption celebrations, but also terminology such as “Gotcha Day” or “G Day”, which is used to reference those celebrations. The article examines “G Day” from [...]
Today's Guest Blogger is Micheline Mutombo Floyd Harris. I extracted my article entitled Foster Youth Perceptions on Educational Well-Being from the Families in Society Journal. The article was published in 2015, and focuses on the educational disparities between foster care youth and youth in kinship care in the state of Vermont. The article highlights school [...]
Today's Guest Blogger is Mary Laderer. This article follows the stories of three adopted youth who ended up homeless and later found out that their adoptive parents were still receiving money from the government to care for them. The article asserts that there are loopholes in many states for adoptive parents to continue to receive [...]
Today's guest blogger is Asha Islaw. My blog post is based off an article written by Rachel Zoll for The Washington Post, which was printed on Sunday January 2, 2011. The article is titled Muslim Orphans Caught between Islam and the West. I chose to write about this article and topic because it’s a topic [...]
Today's guest blogger is Matt Roesler. This article discusses a new bi-partisan U.S. Senate Bill S.2574 titled “Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act”. The bill is co-sponsored by Senators Grassley, Gillibrand, Franken, Peters and Blumenthal. The bill aims to streamline placement of children into foster homes regardless of state lines. Currently [...]