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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.

November 2012

Social media and adoption

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 12th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Social media can be a tool for promoting adoption and it can also be tricky to manage. Adoption agencies might fear using social media because of concerns for privacy issues and unfamiliarity with the social media tools. However, social media is being used more and more by adoptive parents and children and youth, so it [...]

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Remembering that adoption is complex

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 9th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

During the celebrations and hoopla that National Adoption Month brings, it can be easy to forget or dismiss the reality that adoption is not always the fairy tale ending to a child's life. A child brings with him or her a lifetime of pre-adoption history that is often very difficult and filled with trauma. Trauma [...]

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What does permanency mean for youth? Resources for foster youth

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 7th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

Today's National Adoption Month post is aimed at foster youth. Although adoption is often presented as being about the best interests of the child, in reality the child or youth in foster care has very little say or input about their own permanency planning. Social workers, Guardian ad litems or CASA workers, judges and foster [...]

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Minnesota families celebrate adoption

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 6th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

On Sunday, November 4th over 400 families participated in the Circus of the Heart, a joint effort of the MN Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Adoption Resource Network. According to the Star Tribune, the event was created to celebrate the adoption of 540 children from foster care in 2011. Commissioner Lucinda Jesson opened [...]

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National Adoption Month 2012

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 5th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

It's National Adoption Month time again. Since President Clinton expanded National Adoption Week to National Adoption Month in 1995, National Adoption Month has been an effort to bring attention to the children and youth in foster care in need of adoption. Throughout this month we will be highlighting stories about foster care adoption and bring [...]

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October 2012

Woman denied right to adopt partner’s child

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00October 18th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

A same-sex couple in Alabama lost an appeal to allow the non-biological parent to adopt her partner's child last Friday. The couple, who were married in California in 2008, currently lives in Alabama which does not recognize same-sex marriage and does not allow the adoption because, according to the court, the woman "is not the [...]

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The 2012 Centennial Adoption Excellence Awards

By |2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00October 16th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

The Children's Bureau just released their 2012 Centennial Adoption Excellence Awards. The report is available here. Awardees include agencies, organizations and individuals that have contributed to the adoption of children and youth from foster care. The program goes back to the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. The awards were presented on october 10 [...]

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University of Minnesota student describes adoption experience

By |2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00October 15th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , |

A current University of Minnesota student wrote a first-person account of her experience as a Korean adoptee. Student Leah Lancaster describes her experience as being in "No man's land" for the Minnesota Daily. "What is distinctive about being an adoptee is that you are virtually thrown into a cultural No Man's Land," writes Lancaster. "Supposedly, [...]

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