Today's guest blogger is Melissa Lee. The article that I read for the blog post is Black Kids in White Houses: On race, Silence and the changing American family by Jen Graves on November 8th 2008. I found the article on www.thestranger.com/seattle by searching transracial adoptions. The article is written about conversations that happen at [...]
Today's guest blogger is Angela Shepherd. The article, “Cost of Adoption; Perspective Parents Should Go into the Experience with Their Eyes and Wallets Wide Open” was found in the U.S. News & World Report, written by Geoff Williams. October 2, 2014. The article discussed the enormous cost of adoption. It spoke to enormous fees including [...]
AES/Sibling Project – Blog Post 1 Editor's Note: This blog series is written by Lynette Renner an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Her research focus is family violence including intimate partner violence and child maltreatment. The goal of this blog series is to provide information and encourage discussion of [...]
Crossover Youth Series Written by Wendy Haight, PhD, Gamble-Skogmo Chair In this third blog post, we will focus on lessons learned by professionals implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) in five Minnesota counties. We interviewed 84 professionals involved in the implementation of the CYPM. They were judges, attorneys, and child welfare and juvenile justice [...]
Today's guest blogger is Kifah Abdi. Megan Twohey of Reuters spent eighteen months investigating the phenomena of the parents of (primarily) internationally adopted children being abandoned after coming to the United States through multiple online services. The first part of this investigation was released by the Reuters by September 9, 2013. In this article [...]
Today is my last day as Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW). For nearly 4 years I've been blogging about child welfare policy and tracking bills going through the Minnesota legislature related to child welfare (and for a brief period, federal bills related to child welfare). I've loved every [...]
Today's guest blogger is Emily Shea. Juli Fraga writes of her experience being adopted and now being a biological mother in her article in The New York Times, “Adopted as a Child, Now a Mother, Finally ‘Lucky’ (February 15, 2015).” She speaks of the incredible relief and joy she feels as, for the first time [...]
Today's guest blogger is Morgan Larson. Kemp, S. P. & Bodonyi, J. M. (2002).Beyond Termination: Length of Stay and Predictors of Permanency for Legally Free Children. Child Welfare, 81(1), 58-86. Description of the article: Kemp and Bodonyi (2002) studied the length of stay and predictors of permanency within a study of 1366 legally free children [...]