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Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

The Stability, Permanency, and Adoption (SPA) Blog was developed by CASCW as a way to inform child welfare professionals and others about practice, research, and policy issues regarding permanency and adoption of children and youth.

September 2013

New Donaldson Adoption Institute policy report emphasizes need for adoption competence among mental health professionals

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00September 6th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , |

Last week the Donaldson Adoption Institute released its newest policy perspective titled, "A Need To Know: Enhancing Adoption Competency Among Mental Health Professionals. The report highlights the difficulty that adoptive families face when seeking clinical therapeutic services in finding practitioners who have a deep level understanding and training in permanency and adoption. While many therapists [...]

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Adoption and school issues

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00September 4th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

With the start of a new school year, there are many times when adopted children may be faced with challenges. These challenges may be everything from dealing with assignments such as creating a family tree, or bringing in a baby picture to class, or science projects that involve assumed biological-relatedness (see here for an example). [...]

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Lack of post-adoption supports found in study of adoptive parents

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00September 2nd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

According to a study by researcher Alice Home, from the University of Ottawa School of Social Work, the major challenges for Canadian adoptive parents are finding and accessing post-adoption support and services, and getting a diagnosis and then understanding what that means for a child with special needs. Particularly challenging for parents who adopt internationally [...]

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August 2013

Kinship Care – re-thinking bias against placing children with relatives

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00August 29th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

[Uncredited photo from Governing Magazine] On August 13, 2013, Jonathan Walters looks at the myths and challenges of kinship care for children in the child welfare system for Governing magazine. In Agencies Taking a Second Look at Kinship Care, Walters relates a commonly uttered phrase when caseworkers hesitate to place children with relatives, "The apple [...]

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Foster Focus Magazine highlights series, “What Foster Care Feels Like”

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00August 27th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Foster Focus Magazine is currently featuring a photo and short descriptive gallery of former foster alum's thoughts about what how it felt to be in foster care. Foster Focus Magazine is the only monthly magazine that is solely focused on the issues around foster care. Owner and Editor Chris Chmielewski, himself a former foster alum, [...]

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New book looks at the lives of foster youth and foster parents

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00August 23rd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Writer Cris Beam's new book, "To The End of June: Stories from Foster Care" offers in-depth stories of foster children and foster parents. Beam, a foster parent, spent several years with foster families, social workers, former foster children and other professionals who work with foster children. In an interview with Publisher's Weekly, Beam states, We [...]

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Regina Calcaterra promotes adopting teens in her book, Etched in Sand

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00August 21st, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Regina Calcaterra spent time in foster care, and in 1980, emanicipated herself at the age of 14. In her book, "Etched in Sand," Calcaterra describes her chlidhood of abuse and neglect and advocates for adoption, not aging out of foster care. In an interview with Caroline Linton for Women in the World, Calcaterra shares, Now [...]

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Special series on foster care

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00August 19th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

KLEW-TV in Washington state created a three part series on foster care. The series starts with a personal story of one youth's experience bouncing around foster care and eventual stay in a residential facility. In Part 2 Melissa shares how she ended up in the system as a foster child, and the broken promises foster [...]

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