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.

July 2012

Data, data, and more data

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:16-06:00July 3rd, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, Minn-LInK, research|

As someone who is interested in understanding the impact of adoption on children, youth, families, and social welfare systems, one of my biggest frustrations is that there seems to be concurrently an over-abundance of data, and yet the adoption data is very unorganized, un-centralized and differs greatly depending on who is managing the data. This [...]

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Older children and open adoptions on the rise in international adoption

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:16-06:00July 2nd, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, international adoption, Marshall Islands, open adoption|

Today the Star Tribune published an article by Jean Hopfensperger highlighting the changes that adoptive parents wanting to adopt internationally are now facing. These changes include increases in older children, sibling groups, and children with disabilities available for adoption, and a trend toward open adoptions, once considered impossible and/or improbable (even if desirable) a few [...]

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June 2012

MN Adopt training on nurturing feeding for traumatized children

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 29th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, behavioral issues, food insecurity, foster care, mental health|

One of the practice issues that has been rarely talked about in academic, research or policy arenas that impact children that have been institutionalized or in foster care is the issue of eating behaviors. It is quite common for children who have been neglected or for those who have experienced food insecurity, institutionalization in foreign [...]

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Dispelling myths about open adoption

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 28th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, media|

We all know that the media often sensationalizes adoption - either portraying adoption as only bubbles and sunshine without addressing loss, grief, trauma and attachment concerns or conversely, negatively focusing on those cases of extreme behaviors on the part of either adopted children and youth or adoptive parents. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]

North American Council on Adoptable Children conference

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 27th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child trauma, conference, Dr. Bruce Perry, NACAC|

The North American Council on Adoptable Children will hold its 38th annual conference in Crystal City, VA on July 25-28, 2012. This year's theme, Celebrating Families: Valuable Lessons from Children, Parents and Professionals, begins with a pre-session workshop with Dr. Bruce Perry, noted expert on child trauma. Dr. Perry is a Senior Fellow at the [...]

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Local training series for parents of children with traumatized histories and attachment issues

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 26th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, attachment, MN ADOPT, Training|

MN Adopt is offering a training series, Beyond Consequences Training and Support - 8-part Series with Brenda Benning, MSW, LGSW. This training series will provide insight into children's behaviors as well as hands-on skills to help parents work with children that have experienced traumatic histories. The series is based on the book "Beyond Consequences, Logic [...]

When multiple caregivers fight to adopt

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 25th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare, courts, foster care adoption, legal issues, permanency|

A story by Gail Rosenblum was published today in the StarTribune that is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon a scenario in the child welfare system these days. Tomorrow, the MN Court of Appeals will hear arguments on behalf of two families that want to raise two young girls that have been in foster care. We [...]

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Committee Opinion on Adoption from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:17-06:00June 22nd, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, ethics, medical health, obstetrics and gynecology|

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has just released a Committee Opinion on Adoption. This statement aims to provide a discussion about the role of and challenges for obstetrician-gynecologists in working with women seeking medical assistance related to fertility, pregnancy and childbirth. The Committee on Ethics of the Ameican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [...]

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