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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.
Beyond Advocacy
MARCH 20, 2024
With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Joining her was Aysha E. Schomburg, the associate commissioner of the Children’s Bureau.
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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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2022
. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ●
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.
Beyond Advocacy
JUNE 13, 2023
If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.
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