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September 2013

New Donaldson Adoption Institute policy report emphasizes need for adoption competence among mental health professionals

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00September 6th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , |

Last week the Donaldson Adoption Institute released its newest policy perspective titled, "A Need To Know: Enhancing Adoption Competency Among Mental Health Professionals. The report highlights the difficulty that adoptive families face when seeking clinical therapeutic services in finding practitioners who have a deep level understanding and training in permanency and adoption. While many therapists [...]

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April 2013

The Kinship Navigator Project

By |2016-12-01T19:33:08-06:00April 16th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

This guest blog post was written by Clint Mack. In December 2012, Wilder Research completed a 3 year study on the effectiveness of the Kinship Navigator Project. This project was a collaboration of Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association (MKCA) and its partners to help support successful caregiving outside the formal child welfare system. The project goals [...]

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December 2011

A state by state guide to standby guardianship

By |2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00December 2nd, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Standby guardianship is the transfer of legal guardianship of a child to a specifically designated person under certain circumstances and conditions. The original laws were designed to enable parents with disabilities or terminal medical conditions to provide a plan for their children upon their death or inability to provide care. In most cases, in a [...]

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