Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

Unregulated underground adoption networks: “re-homing”

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 25th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, guest blogger, Permanency & Adoption Series, re-homing|

Today's guest blogger is Derek Zumbach. The practice of “re-homing” is a relatively new and dangerous form of unregulated adoption that puts children, often incredibly high needs children, at risk of serious harm. This extensive report published in September of 2013 by the Reuters news organization looks into this practice to shed some light on [...]

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March is National Social Work Month

March is National Social Work Month

By Colleen Doescher-Train|2014-08-14T14:44:24-05:00March 24th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: National Social Work Month|

March is National Social Work Month! This year the theme is "All People Matter." The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) website reports that they chose this year's theme and logo in order to help raise awareness about the American social work profession’s 116-year commitment to improving social conditions and quality of life opportunities for [...]

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New York Times article on the debate between preserving heritage and permanency for American Indian children

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 19th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: best interests of the child, guest blogger, Indian child welfare, Permanency & Adoption Series, placement preference, race and culture|

This guest post was written by Tarynn Anderson. Photo by Mark Holm for the New York Times The article, Focus on Preserving Heritage Can Limit Foster Care for Indians, by Dan Frosch, published on January 26, 2013 in the New York Times, explores the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act and how [...]

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Differing opinions about the importance of race in adoption

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 18th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: best interests of the child, culturally responsive, guest blogger, Permanency & Adoption Series, transracial adoption|

Today's guest post was written by Katie Erickson. On 2/2/14, the New York Times’ Opinion Pages Room for Debate took on a controversial topic in child welfare. Syracuse law professor and author Kevin Noble Maillard organized the conversation entitled “In Adoption, Does Race Matter?” Kevin’s piece, Not a Deciding Factor, but Not to Be Ignored, [...]

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Protecting foster kids from sex trafficking

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 14th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child trafficking, foster care, guest blogger, Permanency & Adoption Series, sex trafficking|

Today's guest blogger is Jodie Glaspie. The article "Protecting foster kids from sex trafficking" by Thanh Tan, focuses on foster kids being more susceptible to being coerced by sex traffickers into prostitution. Every month, more than 100 kids in Washington run away from foster care. In Washington’s King County at least 500 minors work in [...]

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Finding foster parents for children with disabilities

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 12th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: disabilities, foster care, guest blogger, Permanency & Adoption Series|

Today's guest blogger is G Lee Xiong. The journal article, "Who is willing to foster children with disabilities?" was written by John G. Orme, Donna J. Cherry, and Taylor E. Krcek, and published through the Journal of Public Child Welfare in December of 2013. These researchers conducted a study to extend results from the 1980 [...]

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USA Today article about ‘adoption shortage’

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 11th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: guest blogger, international adoption, Permanency & Adoption Series|

Today's guest blogger in the Permanency and Adoption series is Caitlin Williams Franko. USA Today published an article written by Wendy Koch in January 2013 with the title “USA faces critical adoption shortage: Russian ban adds to record-low numbers”. The article highlights the decreasing number of international adoptions and the decreasing number of children available [...]

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SW5905 Permanency in Child Welfare Student guest blogger series

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 5th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: guest blogger, Permanency & Adoption Series|

It's that time of year again. Spring semester at the School of Social Work means guest blog posts from students enrolled in the SW5905 Permanency in Child Welfare course. Each week starting next week and continuing through to the end of May, we will be publishing blog posts written by students learning about permanency and adoption. [...]

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March 2014