KVC

JUNE 20, 2024

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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Therapist Development Center

MAY 30, 2023

Adoption Dissolution vs. Disruption Adoption dissolution refers to the the ending of an adoption after it has been legally finalized. If the end of the adoption takes place before the adoption is legally finalized, this is considered a disruption.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. In 1976, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts decided to celebrate adoption for seven days in his state. Eight years later, President Ronald Regan expanding the observance to becoming National Adoption Week. On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

In selecting the first eight ECF early adopters last year, the DfE specifically sought employers who were already providing support for NQSWs that stretched beyond the ASYE. This is in the light of feedback that practitioners struggled particularly in years two to four of their careers after losing the support provided through the ASYE.

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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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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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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities. Regarding her honour for services to children and families, Beek said: “Throughout my working life I’ve been inspired and supported by so many brilliant and committed colleagues, foster carers and adoptive parents.

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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has chosen three independent, non-local authority providers as early adopters for the five-year ECF: Achieving for Children, for its services in Kingston and Richmond; Birmingham Children’s Trust, and Together for Children in Sunderland.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love. This is in a context where more children are leaving care under special guardianship orders than adoption. This excludes many. This needs to change.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Family Rights Group said it wanted to collaborate with her “to solve the very real issues facing the child welfare system and to help children thrive within their families” Meanwhile, charities Adoption UK , Become and Kinship highlighted the importance of improving outcomes for adopted people and their families, children in care and (..)

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Leaders had adopted a grow your own approach to the workforce including through a social work academy – whose training was valued by staff. Ofsted said this demonstrated the “corporate priority that is given to children’s services” at the borough. Related articles.

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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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