Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

The Stability, Permanency, and Adoption (SPA) Blog was developed by CASCW as a way to inform child welfare professionals and others about practice, research, and policy issues regarding permanency and adoption of children and youth.

October 2019

National Adoption Month: Lifting Youth Voices

By CASCW staff|2019-10-29T12:56:45-05:00October 29th, 2019|Categories: PACC, Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare, foster care, mental health, National Adoption Month, permanency, practice, relative/kinship care, Transition to Adulthood, youth|

Part of a permanency series featuring intersections of child welfare and mental health practice, voiced by PACC alumni Compiled by Keely Vandre, MSW, LGSW, PACC Coordinator The theme of this November’s National Adoption Month sponsored by the Children’s Bureau is Youth Voices, a segment of the permanency and adoption world that can often be marginalized. [...]

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May 2018

My Experience in PACC as an Adoption Professional

By CASCW staff|2018-05-11T12:18:32-05:00May 9th, 2018|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, C.A.S.E, PACC|

by Andrea Brubaker, MSW, LGSW HELP Program Specialist, MN ADOPT According to the Donaldson Adoption Institute 60% of Americans have a connection to adoption which may be underrepresented due to societal secrecy about this topic. As an adoption professional, I speak on a daily basis to myriad community members such as child welfare workers, teachers, [...]

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June 2016

June is Reunification Month; Registration open for Fall 2016 PACC Cohorts

By CASCW staff|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00June 23rd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: PACC, permanency and adoption, reunification, workforce development|

On the heels of National Foster Care month, June highlights National Reunification Month (once just a single day), bringing awareness to the primary permanency option recommended for children involved with the child welfare system. The Children’s Bureau provides history and evidence toward the permanency goal of reunifying families. Additional resources on reunification can be found [...]

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May 2016

Lifting the Burdens From Struggling Families

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, homelessness, student blogger, supportive housing|

Today's guest blogger is Kristin Ashworth. The Huffington Post’s article, Lifting the Burdens from Struggling Families, run on 2/8/16, states that President Obama will seek $11 billion to address family homelessness. As part of his proposal, he hopes to create 25,500 new supportive housing units, or housing that is coupled with social services. The Corporation [...]

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Kinship is More than Just Blood

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: Foster youth, kinship and relative care, permanency and adoption, student blogger|

Today's Guest Blogger is Mollie Kohler. As the title suggests, Kinship is More than Just Blood discusses the issue of kinship care being preferential to non-relative care for children in out of home placements and the implications of this value. It was written by Marie K. Cohen, a former child welfare social worker from Washington [...]

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Minnesota Teens get New Perspective on Adoption

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare, education, student blogger|

Today's guest blogger is a current MSW IV-E Fellow. Freelance writer Kevyn Burger wrote, “Minnesota teens get new perspective on adoption” for the Star Tribune on June 1, 2015. In this article, the author discusses how high school classrooms of Minnesota teenagers across the state are having the opportunity to converse with panels of [...]

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There’s No Place Like Home

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child safety, child welfare, foster care, identity, LGBTQ, LGBTQ youth, permanency, student blogger, trauma, well-being|

Today's Guest Blogger is Ann Rajkowski. The Mallon, Aledort & Ferrera (2002) article entitled There’s No Place Like Home: Achieving Safety, Permanency and Well-being for Lesbian and Gay Adolescents in Out-of-Home Settings discusses an exploratory study conducted on youth residing in two gay-affirming social service agencies, one in New York City and one in Los [...]

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Fostering Profits

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child welfare, Child Welfare Reform, foster care, student blogger|

Today's Guest Blogger is Hung Tran. In 2015, BuzzFeed News investigation published the article, Fostering Profits, in which they examined the nation’s largest for-profit foster care company, National Mentor Holdings. What they found was that this was a company that has helped transform the field of foster care into a “cash cow,” with current placement [...]

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