Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

More than backpacks and #2 pencils: Back to school for adopted children and youth

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 27th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, education, school issues, webinar|

Children and youth that have experienced foster care, institutionalization and/or adoption often face additional struggles in school. Adoption Learning Partners and the Joint Council on International Children's Services is co-sponsoring a webinar, Adoption and Classroom Success: Beyond The Basics. The webinar will be held live Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 7:00PM Central time with a [...]

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Hear Me Now – the 2012 CCAI Foster Youth Internship Report

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 24th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: Foster youth, policy|

The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Foster Youth Internship Report, Hear Me Now, has just been released. The Foster Youth Internship program, created in 2003, provides opportunities for formerly fostered young adults to become congressional interns, where they learn about policies and the legislative process on foster care and adoption. The Foster Youth Internship program [...]

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Resource guide for foster and adoptive parents on nutrition

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 22nd, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, practice issues|

A while back I blogged about food issues among children that have experienced foster care, institutionalization and adoption. I was recently at a conference and saw this wonderful resource created by the SPOON Foundation called Adoption Nutrition: A Starter Guide for Foster and Adoptive Parents. This guide provides helpful information and hints about common nutrient [...]

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Latino foster and adoptive parents needed, according to reports

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 17th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care, Latinos|

As the recent AFCARS figures show, approximately 22% of the children in the U.S. waiting for adoption are Hispanic (of all races). According to a recent report by the Casey Latino Leadership Group, the number of children in care more than doubled over the past 20 years, and issues such as deportation laws are a [...]

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Call for proposals for the 39th North American Council on Adoptable Children conference

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 15th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, conference|

The North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) is looking for submissions for their 39th annual conference, to be held in Toronto, Ontario next August 7-10, 2013. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, November 2, 2012. From the NACAC website: NACAC encourages adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, birth parents, former foster youth, [...]

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New figures show decrease in number of children waiting for adoption

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 13th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, Children's Bureau, data, foster care|

The Children's Bureau released a new Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) report for 2011 (October 1-September 30, 2011). According to the report: In 2011, there was a continued trend toward fewer children waiting for adoption (104,236 children, down from 109,456 in 2010 and from 133,682 in 2007).During the reporting period, parental [...]

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Summer camps as a way to maintain sibling relationships in adoption and foster care

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 10th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare, foster care, siblings|

For many children in foster care or those adopted from foster care, being separated from one or more sibling is unfortunately a common experience. Although the sibling relationship is the longest relationship any person will have to another family member, about 70% of the children in foster care also have another sibling in care. Because [...]

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When adoptive parents target adopted children for abuse

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 8th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child abuse, child welfare, international adoption, Russia|

Photo by Chris Wilson for the Journal Sentinel The abuse of children who have been adopted by their adoptive parents is particularly tragic, considering that adoption is supposed to be the safe haven for children who have already experienced the traumatic dissolution of their birth families. A recent case of the abuse of internationally adopted [...]

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Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

August 2012