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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.

May 2013

Opening up foster “cold cases”

By |2016-12-01T19:33:06-06:00May 13th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

This guest blog post was written by Linda Gross. Photo of Michelle Barclay, Cold Case manager in Georgia Youth Today recently published an article about a program in Georgia where "cold" foster care cases are being reopened to consider adoption options for children that have been otherwise left alone for multiple years. The project began [...]

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Strategies For Improving Child Welfare Services For Families of Color: First findings of a Community-Based Initiative

By |2014-01-17T17:40:21-06:00May 10th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

This guest post was written by Salma Hussein. There is growing evidence that supports the role systematic racism and the workers biases contribute in the overrepresentation of families of color serviced in the child welfare. Consequently, resulting in unjust, unnecessary and unequal treatments that go on to influence both access and utilization of supportive services [...]

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Reclaiming and re-culturation for transracially adopted persons

By |2016-12-01T19:33:06-06:00May 8th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

This guest blog post was written by May Borgen. The article was written by Amanda L. Baden, Lisa M. Treweeke and Muninder K. Ahluwalia in October 2012 for the Journal of Counseling & Development. The title of the article is Reclaiming Culture: Reculturation of Transracial Adoptees. The authors coin the phrase "reculturation" because they do [...]

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Actress Rhea Perlman shines spotlight on issues of aging out of foster care

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

This post was guest written by Brian Magruder. Photo from IMDb. The article I found is titled Jason's Story: 'All You Need Is Love' and it was written by actress Rhea Perlman. This article is about a man Perlman describes as a man in his 30s who had grown up in the Los Angeles County [...]

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Contested adoption pits family against foster parents

By |2016-12-01T19:33:06-06:00May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , |

This guest blog post was written by Emma Siebold. The article, Split the Baby: Two Sides of an Adoption Battle, was published in the Minnesota City Pages newspaper on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 and written by Olivia LeVecchia. It discusses the court battle between the Grossners and Dunnings, two families fighting for custody of two [...]

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Muslim orphans caught between Islamic and Western law

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00May 2nd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

This guest post was written by Bahjo Mahamud. Rachel Zoll wrote the article Muslim Orphans Caught Between Islamic, Western Law, for the Associated Press. It was published in November of 2010. The article covers adoption from the Islamic perspective and the guidelines and procedures that are associated with adopting Muslim children in the Western world. [...]

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The Family Reunification Act

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00May 1st, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

This blog post was written by Kelly Pieper. The Family Reunification Act (HF704/SF422) is a bill currently being debated by Minnesota lawmakers that would give parents who had previously lost custodial rights a chance to be reunited with children. A recent news article written in late February by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reporter Sasha Aslanian, [...]

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April 2013

Adoption incentive programs

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00April 30th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

This guest post was written by Molly Lewis. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) posted an article to their website titled "How the Adoption Incentives Program Can Incentivize Adoptions." This article discusses a federal program called the Adoption Incentives Program, which began in 1997 under the Adoption and Safe Families Act. The author of [...]

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