Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

Ethiopian adoptee abused by adoptive parents wins legal case revoking adoption

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 22nd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoptees, adoption dissolution, child abuse, Ethiopia, illegal adoption, in the media, international adoption, legal issues|

[Photo of Betty with her biological father and cousin, courtesy of Loes Zuidervaart for Voice of America] An unprecedented case involving the revocation of an adoption in Ethiopia was won by a 14-year old who wanted to have the adoption dissolved. Betty Lub was adopted by a Dutch family when she was seven years old. [...]

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Legal battle ends as father is given custody of child placed for adoption without his knowledge or consent

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 20th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, contested adoption, legal issues|

[Photo by Al Hartman, for the Salt Lake Tribune] Terry Archane, the father whose daughter was placed for adoption without his knowledge and consent, will be able to move forward as the sole guardian for his daughter after the adoptive parents who lost custody last month decided not to appeal the ruling. Archane's ex-wife moved [...]

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Ireland apologizes for Magdalene laundries

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 18th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, institutions, Ireland|

Last week, the Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, apologized to survivors of the Magdalene Laundries, the name given to the women subjected to the harsh conditions of the laundries unwed pregnant women. From 1922 to 1996, an estimated 10,000 women and girls were placed.Many of their children were placed for adoption. Justice for Magdalenes, a [...]

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Documentary about former foster youth changing the system

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 15th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child welfare, foster care, permanency, practice issues|

A wonderful resource for those interested in youth aging out of the foster care system, the documentary From Place to Place follows two young adults, Mandy and Raif, as they share their lives and travel to Washington DC to advocate for system change. View the trailer: Their story is also documented in this article featured [...]

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Focusing on permanency for African American children during Black History Month

By JaeRan Kim|2021-02-03T12:27:16-06:00February 13th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, permanency|

Lucinda Jesson, Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Human Services, appeared on KARE-11 to encourage people to consider adopting African American youth in foster care in Minnesota. Commissioner Jesson spoke of meeting one youth who, at age 17, was adopted. Commissioner Jesson also encouraged anyone interested in learning more about adoption to visit the mnadopt.org website. [...]

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Challenges in implementing evidence-based interventions for foster children

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 12th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: evidence-based practice, foster care, Foster youth, research|

Prevention Action, an online news publication on issues related to improving child development and health around the world, published an article, "Stressed welfare systems impede evidence-based support for foster children" last week. According to the article, a collaborative effort by rsearchers in the US and UK found that while several strong evidence-based interventions have been [...]

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Healing from sexual abuse: Heartland Ranch uses horses to help girls exploited in sex trafficking heal

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 8th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child welfare, practice issues, trauma|

[Photo by Jennifer Simonson for MPR] This morning as I was driving to work I heard a wonderful story by Sasha Aslanian on MPR about the Heartland Girl's Ranch. Heartland began as a group home for adolescent girls with behavioral issues and found over the years that more and more of the girls referred to [...]

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Whose story?

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 7th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, birth parents, search and reunion|

[Photo by Patrick Cummings for Associated Press] ESPN's Rick Reilly published a commentary on ESPN's website last week about Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. Kaepernick was adopted and according to the Reilly article, is currently not interested in meeting his birth mother. Human interest stories about our sports figures are common, [...]

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Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

February 2013