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 2011

Overmedicating children and youth in foster care

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:20-06:00December 7th, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: foster care, mental health|

Last Friday night, Diane Sawyer and ABC World News reported on a year-long investigation by the Government Accounting Office that found that children and youth in foster care - even infants as young as a year old - were over-prescribed psychiatric medications or inappropriately receiving psychiatric medication for conditions that did not exist. In addition, [...]

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Weekly news round-up

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare, disparities, permanency|

Each Monday on the Stability, Permanency and Adoption blog we will provide a selection of news from the past week that you may have missed. Today's news round up: From the Chillicothe Gazette, New Private Adoption Agency Focuses on Teen Demographic. "Sojourners, a youth development organization that serves children in foster care with the hopes [...]

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A state by state guide to standby guardianship

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00December 2nd, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: guardianship, permanency|

Standby guardianship is the transfer of legal guardianship of a child to a specifically designated person under certain circumstances and conditions. The original laws were designed to enable parents with disabilities or terminal medical conditions to provide a plan for their children upon their death or inability to provide care. In most cases, in a [...]

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World AIDS Day

By Danielle Hegseth|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00December 1st, 2011|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol, Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, discrimination, US legislature, World AIDS Day|

World AIDS Day 2011 provides some glimmers of hope for children with HIV/AIDS worldwide. HIV and AIDS related deaths for children under age 15 have dropped 10 percent since 2005 and the number of newly infected children has dropped by 24 percent in the same time period. Still, nearly 10 percent of the globe's orphans [...]

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November 2011

Weekly news round-up

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00November 28th, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, permanency|

Each Monday on the Stability, Permanency and Adoption blog we will provide a round-up of news from the past week that you may have missed. Today's news round up: Celebration of National Adoption Day. "Twenty-three children at the Pottawattamie County Courthouse officially left foster care status Saturday - becoming members of a family on National [...]

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Live stream briefing on adoption at the White House

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00November 28th, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, press conferences, White House|

This morning, Senator Klobuchar (D-MN) was one of several guest speakers at a White House event discussing adoption. The event was captured through live streaming, and the permanent link to the event can be found here. ** Edited 12/1/2011 - Following is from Michael Wear, Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of The White House [...]

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2011 Intercountry Adoptions report released from U.S. State Department

By Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00November 21st, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, international adoption|

The Annual Report for 2011 Intercountry Adoptions is now available through the U.S. State Department, which oversees intercountry adoptions for the United States. Some of the interesting highlights from the report: Total adoptions to the U.S. was 9,320, a decrease from 11,058 in 2010. The top sending countries were China (2,589), Ethiopia (1,727), Russia (970), [...]

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Timeline of adoption legislation

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:21-06:00November 18th, 2011|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol, Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare legislation|

Tomorrow, several states and counties across the United States will finalize adoptions as part of National Adoption Day 2011, the day designated each year to bring awareness and recognition of foster care adoption in the United States (for more information about Adoption Day events in Minnesota click here). Over the past month, two bills have [...]

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