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DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024

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Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds. Out of those, 260 were kinship adoptions (37%).

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How to Adopt a Child: What You Need to Know About the Adoption Process

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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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Welcoming Robert “Tres” Newport as Deputy Director of OCYF

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Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Welcoming Robert “Tres” Newport as Deputy Director of OCYF The Office of Children, Youth and Families is excited to share that a familiar face will be the new Deputy Director of the Office of Children, Youth, and Families.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up week ending Nov. 19, 2024

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. ● When Utah lawmakers first tried to incorporate the protections of the Indian Child Welfare Act into state law, the effort was stalled by legislators who wanted to wait and see if the U.S. Using child welfare to try to destroy native peoples is not unique to the United States, of course. . Supreme Court would uphold ICWA.

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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

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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. That’s permanence of, by, and for, the white middle class circa 1955. But as Prof.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018.

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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies.

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