Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

Mixed Roots foundation partners with San Francisco Giants for “Adoptee Night”

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 20th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, media, PSA|

The San Francisco Giants will partner with the Mixed Roots Foundation to create a PSA to raise awareness about adoption. The PSA will premiere next Tuesday, July 24th, which has been designated as "Adoptee Night," during the Giants game against the San Diego Padres. Guests will include filmmaker and director George Lucas, an adoptive parent, [...]

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New foster care legislation in Minnesota, part 2

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 18th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: 87th legislative session, APPLA, best interests of the child, foster care, permanency, placement preference, relative/kinship care|

On Monday, we highlighted some of the changes to the foster care statutes that were passed in the 2012 legislative session in Minnesota. This post will continue the focus on the foster care changes that were made. Many of the changes impact relatives. Changes to the law regarding relative search include: The court may now [...]

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Summary of 2012 Foster Care Legislation in MN, part 1

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 16th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: 87th legislative session, child welfare, concurrent planning, courts, educational stability, extended foster care, foster care, foster care adoption, foster care licensing, home study, new MN law, permanency, reunification, siblings|

Significant changes were made to the foster care statutes in the last legislative session. This post will summarize part of the new legislation changes, and more will come in a future post. Several definitions were amended: "Child" was amended to include references to other statutes allowing youth to remain in foster care to age 21."Sibling" [...]

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Fewer international adoptions – behind the numbers

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 12th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, international adoption, media|

Full Disclosure: I have been asked to appear on MPR to discuss international adoption, in part as a response to criticism that the discussion on Monday was not inclusive enough of adoptee perspectives. This post was written earlier this week and scheduled to publish yesterday. More information will be provided about the show and where [...]

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Is there a limit to the number of parents a child can have?

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 11th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: California, child welfare, courts, legal issues|

One of the long-held myths about adoption has been that children become confused about the concept of having more than one set of parents. This became one of the rationales used to amend birth certificates identifying adoptive parents as birth parents once an adoption finalization has occurred in the United States, and to justify closed [...]

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Webinar on helping children with sexualized behaviors

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 10th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, health, mental health, Training, webinar|

MN ADOPT is hosting a webinar on July 25, 2012 on Helping Children with Sexualized Behaviors: What Parents and Professionals Need to Know with Jane Seymour, MSW, LGSW. From the training desciption: This webinar will review the common myths and facts about children who are exhibiting sexualized behaviors. Participants will learn about the characteristics of [...]

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Article about the “myth of separation” in the child welfare system

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 9th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child welfare, courts, legal issues|

I've mentioned before what a wonderful resource the Child Welfare Information Gateway Library subscriptions are to professionals, researchers and families.I subscribe to a number of their "Libraries" - adoption, permanency, prevention, well being, etc. Each month the CWIG gathers the newest research articles, practice guides and policy updates on a number of child welfare topics, [...]

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Summary of MN DHS 2012 Adoption legislation bulletin

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 6th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: 87th legislative session, adoption, adoptive parents, APPLA, concurrent planning, courts, foster care adoption, home study, kinship/relative care, MN DHS, new MN law, reasonable efforts, siblings|

A few weeks ago, we updated you on the new Adoption Assistance legislation that will go into effect in August 2012. Today we will summarize some of the other child welfare legislation that was enacted in the same legislative session. We will cover adoption policies in this post and in an upcoming post we will [...]

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Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

July 2012