Mariel Carlson, University of Minnesota MSW Student and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW Laura LeBrun, MSW, University of Minnesota Graduate and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW Welcome to the Expanding Knowledge blog series! The following is an eight-week series that will feature means to enhance your child welfare work through education by non-conventional means, exploring [...]
Mariel Carlson, University of Minnesota MSW Student and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW Laura LeBrun, MSW, University of Minnesota Graduate and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW Welcome to the Expanding Knowledge blog series! The following is an eight-week series that will feature means to enhance your child welfare work through education by non-conventional means, exploring [...]
Mariel Carlson, University of Minnesota MSW Student and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW Laura LeBrun, MSW, University of Minnesota Graduate and Outreach Graduate Assistant at CASCW Welcome to the Expanding Knowledge blog series! The following is an eight-week series that will feature means to enhance your child welfare work through education by non-conventional means, exploring [...]
Today's guest blogger is Christi Anderson. Recent racial incidents and tensions like Travyon Martin, Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO and Eric Garner in New York City, have caused white evangelicals who have adopted transracially to experience these events in a much more personal way than ever before. In an article published in the Washington Post [...]
Today's guest post was written by Katie Erickson. On 2/2/14, the New York Times’ Opinion Pages Room for Debate took on a controversial topic in child welfare. Syracuse law professor and author Kevin Noble Maillard organized the conversation entitled “In Adoption, Does Race Matter?” Kevin’s piece, Not a Deciding Factor, but Not to Be Ignored, [...]
Ra'Shede Hageman, defensive tackle for the University of Minnesota Gophers football team, knows about strength and resilience - and not just on the football field. After being removed from his mother, Ra'Shede and his brother were placed in foster care. After twelve foster homes, Ra'Shede had a natural distrust for people. [Photo by Jerry Holt] [...]
This guest blog post was written by Amanda Talan. Article: Is there a (transracial) adoption achievement gap? A national longitudinal analysis of adopted children's educational performance A recent article published in Children and Youth Services Review by Elizabeth Raleigh and Grace Kao seeks to determine whether there are differences in educational attainment between adopted and [...]
This guest post was written by Abdifateh Ahmed. Article: Why Are So Many Celebrities Adopting Black Babies? Writer: Kristen Howerton Posted: 06/14/2012 11:10 am Journal: Huffington Post Photo: Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images Summary The article sums up why celebrities are adopting children and why higher percentages of celebrities are adopting trans-racially and specifically black [...]