All For Kids

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Written by: Keila Asaoka The importance of bonding with an adopted child is supported by scientific research, which emphasizes the significant impact of a supportive relationship on a child’s ability to thrive in the face of adversity. The post The Importance of Bonding with an Adoptive Child appeared first on All For Kids.

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Jaeran Kim

JULY 1, 2020

Are you an adoptive parent? Does your adopted child have one or more developmental, physical, or mental health disabilities? Dr. Claudia Sellmaier and I are seeking adoptive parent participants for a survey about parenting an adopted child with a disability. To participate in this study, click on the link below: [link].

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

It was created in the wake of the scandal surrounding former foster parent, group home operator (and Penn State football coach) Jerry Sandusky , so the University could show that no one, no one , was going to be tougher on child abuse than Penn State. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options? A report by Prof.

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Community Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

There was also recognition for the former head of a university social work centre and a regional adoption agency lead. She was previously head of service at Aspire Adoption, the regional adoption agency for Dorset. Professor Keith Brown, who was awarded an MBE for services to adult safeguarding.

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International Federation of Social Workers

DECEMBER 10, 2022

74 years have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1948, following the Second World War, as a basis for freedom, justice […].

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But, thanks in part to Sarah Font of the Penn State University “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network” (or, as it should be called the Penn State University Penance Institute ) , I have a new theory. Similarly, “permanency” sounds like permanence – but often it is not; not when it is defined as adoption and only adoption.

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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Nearly one-quarter will be adopted, many by their foster parents. On the other hand, more than 15,000 18-year-olds age out of the foster care system each year without reuniting with their families or being adopted. Each year foster homes close due to adoption or personal circumstance. The need for more foster homes continues.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system. About Emporia State University. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW Chad Lassiter, MSW This fall, I have returned to the classroom as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University and, as I have done so, I’m faced with students eager to become social workers. Bach said she wanted to help. Our students must learn that help has a difficult history.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

But in this webinar, from the University of Baltimore School of Law, you can see what primary prevention should be all about. ? That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.”

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Jaeran Kim

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Each year University of Washington Tacoma invites faculty to present on their research and I was fortunate to be asked to participate in this year’s Lightening Talk. These are very short presentations (5 minutes!) with timed slides.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In a video made by the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business, Ripley explained that “you can make money in this business if you control staffing.” The Committee’s own invited witness, Elizabeth Manley of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, testified about the need for these programs.

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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. An appellate court agrees.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The event was sponsored by The Silver School of Social Work at New York University and the University of Buffalo School of Social Work, in addition to the Crown School. The recent tragic mass shooting in Lewistown, Maine , once again focused the nation’s attention on the growing menace of guns and firearms in the United States.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ● Shanta Trivedi, director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore explains why "The Adoption and Safe Families Act is Not Worth Saving: The Case for Repeal."

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Jaeran Kim

MARCH 12, 2024

Faculty Fellows in Community Engagement – University of Washington Tacoma Office of Community Partnerships Summary of Project: SAMM is a series of activities aimed at supporting and growing peer mentorship communities for youth and adults with lived adoption histories. Link to the official webpage at University of Washington Tacoma.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and self-proclaimed “child welfare scholar” seeks to run from the fact that the system he’s done so much to build and maintain – the family policing system – has failed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

I have worked on several projects that integrate simulations into our BSW and MSW programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where I work. Reasons for using simulations range from assessing student competency, wanting to offer unique learning experiences to students (i.e., Source: Missouri Community Action Network.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? Of course, the city’s family policing agency offered up all the usual excuses. But one of the leading scholars of the Fourth Amendment and family policing, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Field Center was co-founded by the late Richard Gelles, who claimed responsibility for writing the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act and was among the most fanatical devotees of a take-the-child-and-run approach to “child welfare.” That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.”

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado. For more information contact moinette.dickens@state.co.us.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Among those sounding increasingly frantic is Richard Barth, former dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland. Misreading We Were Once a Family Barth similarly misunderstood We Were Once a Family , Roxanna Asgarian’s brilliant book about Black children who were adopted to death by their white foster/adoptive parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

If you’re wondering how often foster children are abused, do not ask Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. On the one hand, they have explicitly acknowledged that the confusion of poverty with neglect is a huge problem and something needs to be done. That's certainly a step forward. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

The lawsuit called for strengthening enforcement of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. The failure of the McLawsuit We appreciate the inclusion of NCCPR’s perspective, of course, but even more significant: The series allowed Michigan’s foremost family advocate, Prof. The settlement demanded an odious practice called “concurrent planning.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This was based on research carried out in collaboration with the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University. Black and Asian children were less likely to be on an adoption/placement order – the most intrusive form of state intervention in family life – than children from white and mixed or multiple ethnic groups.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JUNE 30, 2023

I can also envision social work faculty and staff applying these guidelines to the adoption of new accreditation standards and policies and sharing them with institutional leadership when asking for support and resources. She can be reached via email at freedman121@comcast.net. Be at peace with your best.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The same study, by academics at Lancaster and Swansea universities, found that more than 40% of these mothers were estimated to have been aged between 14 and 19 at the birth of their first child. It also cited previous research that found many such young mothers had been in care themselves.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. An older teen was there to spend time with their baby brother who was adopted. If they, decide to meet up with the other adoptive family, brilliant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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