UPDATE 12/7/12: President Barack Obama signed this bill into law on December 7, 2012. On November 26, the U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan bill H.R. 6063, otherwise known as the Child Protection Act of 2012, which focuses on protecting children from child pornography, sexual abuse, and trafficking by enhancing law enforcement's ability to protect children [...]
I recently came across this resource from the National Resource Center for Adoption, part of the Children's Bureau network of Technical Assistance programs. The Youth Permanency Cluster or YPC, is a group of demonstration projects funded in October 2005 during which sites worked to create, implement and evaluate strategies for achieving permanency for youth that [...]
The first session of the United States 113th Congress has been (tentatively) announced. According to the U.S. Senate website, the 113th Congress will convene on January 3, 2013. Minnesota's representation is as follows:Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)Senator Al Franken (D-MN)Representative Timothy J. Walz (D-MN1)Representative John Kline (R-MN2)Representative Erik Paulsen (D-MN3)Reprentative Betty McCollum (D-MN4)Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN5)Representative [...]
An article for The Republic and azcentral.com published late November highlighted the challenges that some adoptive families face that lead to a disruption or dissolution of an adoption. The article highlighted one family whose adopted child struggled with mental health and behavioral issues so extreme, the family felt they had no other options but to [...]
On Friday, December 6, at 9am, the two House Health & Human Services (HHS) committees (Reform and Finance) will meet jointly to discuss the November forecast, the fiscal cliff and its impact on the Depts. of Health and Human Services, and methadone as a chemical dependency treatment. It will be held in room 10 of [...]
A former Oklahoma foster parent is pursuing legislative changes to state and federal Indian child welfare laws in response to a personal experience she had in which her two former foster children lived with her for three months before being placed in a tribal foster home. She is concerned that the law would require such [...]
Sometimes videos of people sharing their experiences are the most profound. As we near the end of National Adoption Month, we have put together some resources for videos on a variety of topics related to permanency and adoption. Adoption Learning Partners is a resource for educational resources about adoption for professionals, parents, adopted individuals and [...]
Transracial adoption has always been controversial. Whether or not you agree with the practice of transracial adoption, it is important that child welfare and adoption practitioners and foster and adoptive parents understand that transracially adopted children and youth will have additional identity development needs and concerns than same-race adoptees. Just as every adopted person feels [...]