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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. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about. That’s not correct.
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Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Thanks to our team and supporters, KVC positively impacts approximately 75,000 people’s lives every year.
According to the SubstanceAbuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), six key principles guide trauma-informed care. Building a trauma-informed organization and practice After integrating a trauma-informed approach into your own work, you may be ready to help others adopt this approach.
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? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.
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