Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. This was because of an increasing focus on the role of race in identity formation and the challenges of transracial adoptions. Lack of diversity in adoption workforce and panels .

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The number of children adopted from care fell to its lowest level in 21 years in 2020-21, Department for Education (DfE) figures show. Delays in family court proceedings during Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the latest annual decline in adoptions, but the number has fallen each year since a peak of 5,360 in 2014-15.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

The decline in the number of adoptions since 2015 is continuing while children are waiting longer on average to be placed despite an expanding pool of approved adopters, official figures show. for regional adoption agencies, from 2022-25, sparking renewed calls for investment in the rest of the care system. Related articles.

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

COVID-19 caused a steep decline in all adoptions. However, prior to the pandemic, important demographic changes were already occurring across public and private adoptions. These changes have important implications for social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. She found children who not only never should have been placed with the adoptive parents who killed them; they never needed to be placed with strangers at all.

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Famcare

AUGUST 25, 2022

With over 400,000 children in foster care and over 100,000 adoptable children in the United States, we are passionate about improving the adoption process with the right social services software.

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National Casa Gal

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

During National Adoption Month, the National CASA/GAL Association for Children recognizes that connections to extended family give children and youth a sense of belonging and love. The post National Adoption Month: family connections are key appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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National Casa Gal

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Soronen, who currently serves on the National CASA/GAL Association for Children Board of Trustees, sat down with National CASA/GAL during National Adoption Month to talk about kinship care adoption and the importance of nurturing family connections for children in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ariel Sellers, as she was known before her adoption, was reported missing by her foster/adoptive parents. Ultimately, they adopted her and changed her name. The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Now they've been charged with her murder.

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Psychological Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

Forget short-lived New Year’s resolutions and rigid goal setting, instead commit to adopting some simple habits to boost your mental fitness now and well into the future. Making some changes to your routines and adopting some simple habits that you can stick with can have the power to improve your life. Embrace Mindfulness.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s mental health treatment and other life-changing services.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Jaeran Kim

JULY 1, 2020

Are you an adoptive parent? Does your adopted child have one or more developmental, physical, or mental health disabilities? Dr. Claudia Sellmaier and I are seeking adoptive parent participants for a survey about parenting an adopted child with a disability.

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Jaeran Kim

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I’m guest editing a special issue of Adoption Quarterly with Bibiana Koh. Special Issue of Adoption Quarterly: Ethics and Adoption. . Adoption Quarterly invites abstract submissions for consideration in a special issue critically examining the intersection of ethics and adoption. adoption. .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options?

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, notes Kimberly Clarke Ten cheers for Floella Benjamin, Civitas and the cross-party group of peers behind the report Breaking the Care Ceiling ( Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead?,

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Black and Asian children were less likely to be on an adoption/placement order – the most intrusive form of state intervention in family life – than children from white and mixed or multiple ethnic groups. It is also important to note that mixed heritage children were significantly over-represented in adoption.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Tomorrow, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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The Guardian

JULY 28, 2022

Leiland-James Corkill might not have died had agencies collaborated better, investigation concludes Information about drinking, debts and mental health that could have prevented a baby boy being placed with an adopting mother who went on to murder him was not shared between agencies, an investigation has concluded.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. An older teen was there to spend time with their baby brother who was adopted. If they, decide to meet up with the other adoptive family, brilliant.

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Famcare

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As we peer into our crystal balls to forecast future trends for human service organizations, all indications point to a highly tech-backed and advanced operational path. Disruptive technologies are being implemented by an increasing number of welfare organization managers and case workers in order to improve performance and case management.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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CAPC

JUNE 13, 2024

Listen as two experts from the Center to Advance Palliative Care discuss how, despite increased awareness, misconceptions about palliative care hinder its wider adoption.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Similarly, “permanency” sounds like permanence – but often it is not; not when it is defined as adoption and only adoption. Not only did the law Font loves, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act not fix it, ASFA may well have made it worse. Adoption is a very popular concept in the country right now.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

She writes: Although permanency is important for older youth as well, the implications are less clear given that reunification or guardianship or living with relatives (adoption is exceedingly rare for older youth) may deprive older youth of additional resources that are conditional on aging out. Adoptive homes tend to be richer – and whiter.

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Famcare

JANUARY 27, 2022

Casework can be very demanding at times. It’s also a broad profession in terms of the situations and expectations that social workers come across. Despite it being a challenging field, it’s also one of the fasting growing ones here in the US.

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Community Care

JUNE 12, 2024

The document also made more generalised commitments to prioritise keeping children with their families where that was best for them, including through its kinship care strategy , support adoption, where that was the better option, and help care leavers with housing, education and employment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 28, 2023

. ● Mia’s mother says she gave up the girl and her other children for adoption nine years ago because she thought they would be safe. The adoption failed – the adoptive parents gave up on the children and sent them back to foster care. ● The adoption failed – the adoptive parents gave up on the children and sent them back to foster care.

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Jaeran Kim

MARCH 12, 2024

Faculty Fellows in Community Engagement – University of Washington Tacoma Office of Community Partnerships Summary of Project: SAMM is a series of activities aimed at supporting and growing peer mentorship communities for youth and adults with lived adoption histories.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Mical Raz in The Washington Post: “Our adoption policies have harmed families and children. The Clinton-era Adoption and Safe Families Act passed 25 years ago.

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CAPC

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How clinicians can help caregivers alleviate their distress—from a simple, "how are you" and assessment to the adoption of strategies that can improve their well-being.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But with no statutory duty on councils to provide support for birth families of children taken into care, apart from in cases of adoption, Pause said that they faced a postcode lottery in provision. It also cited previous research that found many such young mothers had been in care themselves.

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Swhelper

JANUARY 11, 2023

After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption. Manuel Stoilov. Since the launch of the company in 2017, Binti has expanded its network to over 190 agencies across 26 states in the U.S.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The Cadernos GEPE journal adopts a double-blind evaluation system, which ensures higher quality in the selection of articles for publication. Access and publication policy: The Cadernos GEPE Journal adopts an open access policy, making all its content freely available, with the aim of democratising scientific knowledge.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A model for this sort of change is provided by the creation of regional adoption agencies (RAAs) over the past seven years. It found that RAAs appeared to have sped up the time taken to place a child for adoption, relative to performance by councils who were then outside regional structures.

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