Guest blogger: Kayla Hinrichs In the December 2015 article “Detectives unearth long-lost links for kids needing adoption,” reporter Erin Adler from the Star Tribune highlights a semi-recent phenomenon that expands resources for social workers searching for permanency and supportive caregivers for children within the child welfare system. This article discusses how social media and other [...]
Today's guest blogger is Wijit Xiong The article I found was called, What’s the Point of Adopting a 17-year-old Kid? This article was written by Jessica Good on November 4, 2015 and was published by adoption.com. The author started out by telling her own story of how she thought back on the hardship that she had [...]
Today's guest blogger is Annie Patnode The article, Closed Adoption Is on its Last Legs So Here’s What We Must Do by Lori Holden from the Huffington Post, succinctly refers to adoption as “the shades of gray and hues of color, so much deeper and more intricate than simple black and white interpretations.” As an [...]
Today's guest blogger is Caleb Williamson The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a social welfare policy that was established by congress in 1978. The law was initially created in response to the high numbers of American Indian youth being removed from their homes and placed in non-Indian foster and adoptive homes (25 U.S.C. 1901-63). [...]
Today's Guest Blogger is Maria Albares In the general population there seems to be little knowledge about the history of adoption and, more specifically, the history of adoption records and the debate surrounding them. As adoptees’ arguments become more prevalent in the media, it is imperative that people have a better understanding of the history [...]
This week, our MSW IV-E students who are currently in their advanced field placements in county child protection and child welfare units, participated in child protection simulations at the University of Minnesota's Simulation Center / Interprofessional Education & Resource Center on the East Bank campus. Students engaged in two different child protection scenarios, one involving [...]
Today's guest blogger is Beth Ringer. On February 24, 2016, the Huffpost Politics blog posted an article written by Dr. Jeremy Christopher Kohomban (CEO of Children’s Village in New York) and Jess Dannhauser (CEO of Graham Windham) titled Towards Equity: Bi-partisan Federal Legislation Tackles Racial Disproportionality and Puts Families First. The article explains the importance [...]
Today's guest blogger is Holly Gilbert. In 2013 Reuters did an investigation into a phenomenon known as “Re-homing” and published it in an article titled The Child Exchange. Many of the children involved in this re-homing were children who were “hard to place” children in the foster care system, were more likely to have higher [...]