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Call for Papers: Adoption Quarterly Special Issue

Jaeran Kim

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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PART ONE OF FOUR: “Child welfare” heads to the reputation laundry

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Even the minimal due process protections in criminal justice are effectively null and void in “child welfare.” High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep.

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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Doing what we’ve always done?

Irish Socail Worker

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. In Ireland, we have taken a narrow approach to adoption of the Directive. Doing what we’ve always done? So what’s my point here?

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. A small number are sick.

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Garrett Therolf and the Magic Algorithm!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. It amounts to computerized racial profiling.