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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.

December 2012

Building social capital for youth in foster care

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00December 7th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Earlier this month we discussed social media and adopted and foster youth. While social media is often discussed as a concern regarding the ways in which youth use it, what isn't always as talked about is how it is part of a youth's overall social capital and why social capital is an important area that [...]

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Achieving permanency for youth projects from the Children’s Bureau

By |2014-08-13T23:13:23-05:00December 5th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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Supporting troubled adoptive families before they disrupt or dissolve

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00December 3rd, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

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 [...]

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November 2012

Viewing adoption – resources for adoptees, adoptive parents and professionals

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 26th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

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 [...]

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Transracial adoptees speak

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 23rd, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

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 [...]

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More youth voices

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 19th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

What does it feel like to be adopted? Check out these voices of the adoptees themselves. A fantastic Minnesota story by American Radio Works from 2007 featuring siblings Chris and Amanda in Wanted: Parents. The story is here, the audio is here (transcript of the audio is here).Roger's story for Wanted: Parents - A Place [...]

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For adopted youth – staying safe online

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 16th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

Online social networking sites allow youth in foster care and adoption to connect with others who have shared their experiences. However negotiating social relationships - online ones included - can still be tricky. Youth can can be at risk, and for foster and adopted youth, issues such as who to trust, what to share, and [...]

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Adoptive family perspectives

By |2016-12-01T19:33:13-06:00November 14th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Today we are bringing you family perspectives. From the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections, their series Digital Stories from the Field includes foster/adoptive family perspectives. These eleven videos provide a variety of experiences of families that have adopted children and youth from foster care. A diverse group of perspectives are included: LGBT [...]

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