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.

March 2013

What adopted persons need to hear

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:09-06:00March 13th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption|

Amanda at the Declassified Adoptee, a popular adoption blog, wrote a terrific post called "5 Things Every Adoptee Needs To Hear From Absolutely Everyone." Each adoptee will have a different experience with adoption and a unique story. People often want to know how they can be sensitive to someone's story, particularly when it's something that [...]

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Why race matters for the transracially adopted child

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:09-06:00March 11th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, race and culture, transracial adoption|

Adoptive Families Magazine online featured an article in their Circle forum by Jane Brown, an adoptive parent well known for her workshops for adoptive families, on why race matters for a transracially adopted child. In many ways the article was actually a lesson in why race matters for transracial adoptive parents. There are many adoptive [...]

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Bill to close adoption “doughnut hole” in Ohio

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:09-06:00March 7th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, Ohio|

Legislation to close the "doughnut hole" for adopted individuals born between 1964-1996, the years of closed adoptions in Ohio, is currently in committee. Legislation opening access to original birth certificates (OBC) in 1996 was not retroactively given to adoptees born in these years. The Toledo Free Press reported in February that opposition to access regarding [...]

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Report on children adopted by gay and lesbian couples

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:09-06:00March 5th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, LGB, research|

A new report by the British Association of Adoption and Fostering on children adopted by same-sex partners found that these children have same outcomes as children adopted by heterosexual parents. "Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive Families: Family relationships, child adjustment and adopters' experiences" studied130 families, 40 2-parent lesbian mother-headed households, 41 2-parent gay father-headed household [...]

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Finding permanency for teens in foster care

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00March 4th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, permanency, recruitment, video|

If you missed it, Ampersand Families, a local agency in Minnesota, made an appearance on KFAI's Morning Blend show in February to discuss finding permanency for older youth in care - the teens. Ampersand Families focuses on recruitment and placement for this population. You can hear Jen Braun, co-founder and co-executive officer at Ampersand, discuss [...]

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Supporting foster youth parents

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00March 1st, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: California, foster care, teen parents, teen pregnancy|

California Senator Leland Yee is sponsoring a bill that would help support foster youth who are parents in the state. The bill would help foster youth raising children with resources to help them stay in school, provide needed parenting and child care. In the Pleasanton Weekly, Leland states that "parenting and pregnant youth are 200% [...]

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February 2013

Photo recreation of “baby announcement” goes viral

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 27th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, youth|

Among the losses that youth in foster care experience are those that most of us take for granted. For example, baby photos. Schools and even work places often have planned activities that ask people to bring in baby photos. Sometimes it's for a "guessing game" and sometimes just to share your early life. For youth [...]

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Discussion about transracial adoption of black children on Huffington Post

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 25th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, race and culture, transracial adoption|

The HuffPost Live blog aired a show on transracial adoption. Featured guests include an adult transracial adoptee, Rachel Noerdlinger, adoptive parent Mindy Smith, researcher Darron Smith and Toni Oliver from the National Association of Black Social Work (NABSW). You can watch the episode on the HuffPost Live website or below.

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