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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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. Honolulu police dept.

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All For Kids

MARCH 13, 2024

The foster care system and adoption play pivotal roles in reshaping the lives of these children—it offers them the opportunity to thrive in loving and supportive families. To better grasp the distinct aspects of fostering a child and adopting a child, view these latest statistics that shed light on the difference.

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Shelter, Inc

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Shelter is proud to announce a $2,000,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to partner with Let It Be Us for a new Emergency Foster Care Program. However, it may take days or even weeks to match the child with the right foster home.

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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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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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National Casa Gal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We honor the rich cultures and histories of Native American people and communities while also raising awareness about the importance of foster care, reunification, and adoption.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fostering is just one of many ways to help children in crisis, so here are seven other ways you can help a child in foster care: 1. Children in foster care have likely experienced abuse, neglect, or some type of family trauma. Provide Respite Care . Mentor a Teen . 27% less likely to start drinking.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

Whether that’s a story of a foster care caseworker noticing and meeting a child’s needs, a family reconnecting after difficult times, or a community coming together for a shared cause, life is really all about positive relationships with other people. Since then, we’ve been sharing the stories online.

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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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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. As I discussed in a previous post, the worst part of Font’s “report” is what it says about her attitude toward older foster youth – she seems to think they need money more than love.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

May being National Foster Care Month, I asked Erica Schultz, our Foster Care Licensing Specialist, what she would like to tell people about our programs. First, the goals of Shelter’s Foster Care Programs are different from adoption agencies. Adoption is a forever commitment.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you are considering adoption, congratulations! However, the adoption journey can prove difficult to navigate if you don’t have the understanding and resources necessary to guide you through the child adoption process. What are your feelings on international adoption vs. domestic adoption?

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2024

Adoption is a beautiful journey that transcends all types of families, be it single parents, young couples, those struggling with fertility, or families with an abundance of love to share. Sandra Bullock Adopts Louis Sandra Bullock started her adoption journey amidst a highly publicized divorce from reality TV star Jesse James in 2010.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. They move to change the case goal for the children from reunification to adoption. Dad must jump through the usual hoops, but, as is so often the case, it’s never enough.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

They’re dumped into institutions by family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) when they run out of foster homes because they take so many children needlessly. As she testified: “For children who do end up in foster care, we cannot allow them to grow up in cold facilities that act like kid prisons.”

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

These five adoption stories couldn’t help but bring a smile to our faces, and we hope they bring one to yours too! Retirees Find Joy in Adoption As a retired couple, Al and Jan still had the desire to have a child in their life but knew that an infant or toddler might not be the best fit. Helping Hand Home For Children 3.

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. She was adopted, but the family was not able to stay together. They were placed in foster care.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Foster Mom Works Around the Clock to Care for Medically Fragile Children Vera Garyeazon has a very busy schedule and often works around the clock to care for the medically fragile children in foster care who live in her home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Consider: ● The mother, Annalinda Martinez, had grown up in foster care herself. But instead of connecting her family to housing, the state put her kids in foster care. She believed it would allow her kids to be adopted together into the same home. ● There really was child abuse – but not by Ms. She agreed.

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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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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Adoption is a remarkable journey that can bring immense joy and fulfillment to both the child and the adoptive family. However, it’s important to acknowledge that it can also present unique challenges and complexities through the psychological effects of adoption.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

CASA volunteers also complete 30 to 40 hours of training with a curriculum that includes psychology, the foster care system, juvenile law, court structure, dynamics of abuse, how to build trust and rapport, volunteer safety as well as other training that may be tailored to the needs of local jurisdictions.

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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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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 12, 2022

to Recruit Homes for the Emergency Foster Care Program. Children in foster care face many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the disruption they experience when they have to leave the home where they’ve been living, whether with biological or foster family. Let It Be Us is Partnering with Shelter Inc.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

In that op-ed, she writes: Research finds that following high-profile child fatalities, child welfare agencies respond by removing more children from their homes in a “foster care panic.” And his only solutions are more study and ramping up constant surveillance of all adoptive families. But not Richard Barth.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to CR: DCS has dramatically reduced its historical over-reliance on non-family institutional placements … The percentage of Tennessee children in foster care placed with families has risen and has been maintained at approximately 88 percent. So it’s no wonder CR’s claims of success don’t always hold up well. Not anymore.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship foster care get their way A few months ago on this blog, I posed a hypothetical question to some folks in Oregon. Suppose they took really good care of your child. Or it’s months before relatives even find out the child is in foster care. Are you sure? Emphasis added.]

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! Another issue exalts the fact that one of the nation’s big residential McTreatment chains received “a grant of $7,250 to create a mentoring program for youth in foster care.” But all that is such a downer.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The New York Times takes a close look at President Biden’s proposed budget for “child welfare” in particular his proposal to increase federal reimbursement if a child is placed with relatives – kinship foster care – and decrease reimbursement if a child is forced into a group home or institution. And finally … ?

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