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March 2016

Closed Adoption – On Its Last Legs

By |2016-12-01T19:32:51-06:00March 15th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Today's guest blogger is Annie Patnode The article, Closed Adoption Is on its Last Legs So Here’s What We Must Do by Lori Holden from the Huffington Post, succinctly refers to adoption as “the shades of gray and hues of color, so much deeper and more intricate than simple black and white interpretations.” As an [...]

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The Child Exchange

By |2016-12-01T19:32:52-06:00March 2nd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Today's guest blogger is Holly Gilbert. In 2013 Reuters did an investigation into a phenomenon known as “Re-homing” and published it in an article titled The Child Exchange.  Many of the children involved in this re-homing were children who were “hard to place” children in the foster care system, were more likely to have higher [...]

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August 2012

Webinar opportunity: Communication between adoptive and birth families

By |2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 31st, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , |

MN Adopt is offering a webinar on September 12, 2012 on Communicating with Birthparents/Families: An Adoptive Mother's Experience. The webinar will be hosted by Terssa Markworth, MA. Terssa Markworth and her husband of 25 years have adopted waiting children from Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa and South Korea. She is currently completing her Master of Communication Studies [...]

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July 2012

Summary of MN DHS 2012 Adoption legislation bulletin

By |2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 6th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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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