We had a terrific series of guest posts written by MSW students in the SW5905 Permanency in Child Welfare courses this spring. Thank you for thought-provoking blog posts! We hope everyone enjoyed the series.
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2015-2016 Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate program. The two cohorts for 2014-2015 will be located in the Twin Cities metro area and Duluth, MN. Successful graduates of the PACC will be listed on a searchable database where families, agencies, and other professionals can search for adoption-competent providers. The [...]
Today's guest blogger is Nickie Hanson. The article I chose was from NBC News and The Associated Press titled Boy sent back to Russia, adoption ban urged. This particular article was last updated on April 9, 2010. This particular article details the situation of a 7 year-old boy, who was put on a flight from [...]
Today's guest blogger is Melissa Lee. The article that I read for the blog post is Black Kids in White Houses: On race, Silence and the changing American family by Jen Graves on November 8th 2008. I found the article on www.thestranger.com/seattle by searching transracial adoptions. The article is written about conversations that happen at [...]
Today's guest blogger is Angela Shepherd. The article, “Cost of Adoption; Perspective Parents Should Go into the Experience with Their Eyes and Wallets Wide Open” was found in the U.S. News & World Report, written by Geoff Williams. October 2, 2014. The article discussed the enormous cost of adoption. It spoke to enormous fees including [...]
Today's guest blogger is Kifah Abdi. Megan Twohey of Reuters spent eighteen months investigating the phenomena of the parents of (primarily) internationally adopted children being abandoned after coming to the United States through multiple online services. The first part of this investigation was released by the Reuters by September 9, 2013. In this article [...]
Today's guest blogger is Emily Shea. Juli Fraga writes of her experience being adopted and now being a biological mother in her article in The New York Times, “Adopted as a Child, Now a Mother, Finally ‘Lucky’ (February 15, 2015).” She speaks of the incredible relief and joy she feels as, for the first time [...]
Today's guest blogger is Morgan Larson. Kemp, S. P. & Bodonyi, J. M. (2002).Beyond Termination: Length of Stay and Predictors of Permanency for Legally Free Children. Child Welfare, 81(1), 58-86. Description of the article: Kemp and Bodonyi (2002) studied the length of stay and predictors of permanency within a study of 1366 legally free children [...]