Part of a permanency series featuring intersections of child welfare and mental health practice, voiced by PACC alumni Compiled by Keely Vandre, MSW, LGSW, PACC Coordinator The theme of this November’s National Adoption Month sponsored by the Children’s Bureau is Youth Voices, a segment of the permanency and adoption world that can often be marginalized. [...]
The first of a permanency series featuring intersections of child welfare and mental health practice, voiced by PACC alumni Compiled by Keely Vandre, MSW, LGSW, PACC Coordinator While November is recognized as “National Adoption Month,” those impacted personally and/or professionally know the scope of permanency is not limited by calendar or lifespan. Specialized skills to [...]
Image source: National Adoption Month website / Child Welfare Information Gateway Since 1995 the U.S. has recognized November as National Adoption Month. This year's theme is Promoting and Supporting Sibling Connections. The theme was chosen to recognize the unique bond between siblings, which research has shown to be influential in children's emotional well-being and development. [...]
National Adoption Month banner, taken from the National Adoption Month website Today is the start of National Adoption Month, and all month long we will be blogging about adoption with a particular focus on promoting permanency for children and youth in foster care. To begin, we start today with a link to the National Adoption [...]
Today we are bringing you family perspectives. From the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections, their series Digital Stories from the Field includes foster/adoptive family perspectives. These eleven videos provide a variety of experiences of families that have adopted children and youth from foster care. A diverse group of perspectives are included: LGBT [...]
Social media can be a tool for promoting adoption and it can also be tricky to manage. Adoption agencies might fear using social media because of concerns for privacy issues and unfamiliarity with the social media tools. However, social media is being used more and more by adoptive parents and children and youth, so it [...]
Today's National Adoption Month post is aimed at foster youth. Although adoption is often presented as being about the best interests of the child, in reality the child or youth in foster care has very little say or input about their own permanency planning. Social workers, Guardian ad litems or CASA workers, judges and foster [...]
It's National Adoption Month time again. Since President Clinton expanded National Adoption Week to National Adoption Month in 1995, National Adoption Month has been an effort to bring attention to the children and youth in foster care in need of adoption. Throughout this month we will be highlighting stories about foster care adoption and bring [...]
