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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.

April 2015

Questions about the increase of adoption subsidies in Minnesota

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 6th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Steve Mincey.   Minnesota’s Adoption Bill The article I will be reviewing is “The Minn. Adoption bill up for Senate” published on March 12, 2013 on MPR News by Sasha Aslanian. This article discusses a new proposed bill to increase Minnesota’s adoption rate from foster care. The current bill in place [...]

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Adoptee “Flips the Script”

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 2nd, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Matt Burbage When the media discusses adoption, it tends to focus on the perspective of the adoption industry or the adoptive parents.  Yet, this depiction doesn’t tell the full story. In fact, Laura Barcella illustrates that there is another very important narrative that tends to get discounted, in her recently published [...]

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March 2015

Aboriginal adoptees sue Ottawa, Canada

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00March 31st, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Emma Lofgren. The article titled: Aboriginal adoptees suing Ottawa, was an article from The Canadian Press dated February 9th, 2015. The article discusses a class action suit against the federal government for damages of emotional trauma and loss of culture due to what is called the “60’s Scoop.” The 1960’s marked [...]

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Implication of genetics for adoptive parents

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00March 27th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Ashley Jones. In Adoption and Genetics: Implications for Adoptive Parents, E. Kay Trimberger shares her personal story of adoption. Her story is one in which the discussion of genetics and adoption are linked together, with the idea that ‘nature versus nurture’ is an important topic in the realm of adoption. Trimberger, [...]

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Promising Practices for Preventing Re-entry into the Child Welfare System

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 25th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Today's guest blogger is David Glesener   Preventing Re-entry into the Child Welfare System, a Literature Review of Promising Practices by Northern California Training Academy Document web link:  http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/res/pdf/PreventingRe-entry.pdf This resource guide is a systematic review of evidence based and promising practices to address the high rates of re-entry into foster care—children that have left [...]

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Foster youth victims of sex trafficking

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 23rd, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Today's guest blogger is Hannah Burton. Article Title: From the System to the Street: The factors and figures behind the so-called “foster care to prostitution pipeline” Author: Lauren Kirchner Date Published: February 12, 2015   This article focused on children who have runaway or aged out of the foster care system and their relationship with [...]

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When adoption is not a “forever family”

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 19th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Today's guest blogger is Tyler Gustafson. In 2010, the Chicago Tribune told the story of an adoption that speaks to the fears of many parents who are contemplating adoption.  In the article Adoption Interrupted, a story is told of a loving family, the Gertzes, who seem to have all the right resources, and adopt a [...]

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A comparison of child welfare workers’ recommendations for or against adoption – Differences and similarities from the U.S., England and Norway

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 17th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

By guest blogger Nicole DuRoche. “Adoption in the child welfare system — A cross-country analysis of child welfare workers' recommendations for or against adoption” was written by Marit Skivenes and Øyvind Samnøy Tefre of Bergen University College of Norway’s Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, and was published in Children and Youth Services Review on [...]

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